India enjoyed a free and vibrant media. Narendra Modi’s brazen attacks are a catastrophe

In January, the BBC broadcast a two-part series, India: The Modi Question, which looked forensically at the role of Narendra Modi in fomenting the Gujarat anti-Muslim riots of 2002 in which at least 1,000 people were killed. Now the prime minister of India, Modi was then the chief minister of Gujarat.The response in India was swift. Kanchan Gupta, an adviser to the ministry of information and