Muzzling the BBC: what does Indian PM Narendra Modi have to hide?

The Delhi government has blocked the airing of a documentary on Modi’s role in the 2002 Gujarat riots

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi
Modi: making the same mistake as Streisand
(Image credit: Yuichi Yamazaki/Getty Images)

It’s known as the “Streisand effect”, said The Hindu (Chennai): try to block information about something (as the actress Barbra Streisand tried to do with photos of her Malibu mansion) and you end up bringing it to the attention of a far wider audience than if you’d let it be.

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