The BBC documentary India’s government doesn’t want people to see

University students across India have protested the government’s suppression of a recently released BBC documentary on Prime Minister Narendra Modi. About his role in the 2002 Gujarat riots, in which more than a thousand people were killed, mostly Muslims.

The Indian government rejected the documentary using emergency powers, stemming from an IT law enacted in 2021 that allows for the removal of online content deemed by the government to be false or fake, or deemed to be a threat to public order.

This week on No Stranger, we’ve got support and reactions to Modi closing the BBC documentary and what he had to say about growing concerns about censorship and freedom of expression in the country.

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Nothing is Stranger, a podcast from CBC News and CBC Podcasts, is a weekly trip to where the stories are. It was hosted by Tamara Khandaker.