The impact of BBC's Modi video has begun
P. S. Remesh Chandran
Editor, Sahyadri Books & Bloom Books, Trivandrum
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Attacks on Hindu temples have begun in Australia. The BJP-appointed Australian Indian High Commissioner has alleged that Sikhs, who are expatriates from India, are behind the attacks. The job of the BJP-appointed Australian Indian High Commissioners is to level allegations against Sikhs from India, because Sikhs in Australia are better off than Hindus in India under the BJP Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Australia is a country that has encouraged immigration for the sake of national development due to its vast land area and low population. We must not forget that hard work was required from the early settlers, including the Sikhs from India. They are now reaping the rewards of their hard work there.
The hatred the foreign people have for the genocidal Modi, after viewing this BBC video, is now being directed at the Hindu temples these people see nearby, which are situated conveniently everywhere built without discrimination all over the world with the arrogance of wealth. And wasn’t it in the name of Hinduism that Modi unleashed all that violence, that series of murders in Gujarat, and after Modi became the Prime Minister with the help of Reliance, Adani and the Election Commission, his followers are still continuing it? As these Hindu temples are the representatives of Hinduism everywhere, are now icons of his-type-of Hinduism, available near them to desecrate at will, the walls of these temples are now filled with anti-Indian slogans and graffiti written by the people there.
Narendra Modi, through India's Ministry of External Affairs and the leaders of the central BJP, has expressed a very negative opinion about the standards of BBC’s news reporting and the videos that they have been producing and showing, which are popular and politically important all over the world. Using the newly introduced I. T. Act amendment by the BJP, it has banned its showing in India and has asked Face Book, Twitter and You Tube, both officially and unofficially, to withdraw it from social media. It is clear that they are scared! It is also clear that there is fear that, whether or not the Prime Minister had a diplomatic passport, entry would be denied due to public protests in many countries, and that from now onwards, this self-appointed world leader would no longer be able to tour around in many countries, always in air without touching ground like before.
It seems that Narendra Modi has assumed that if he, sitting in the chair of the Prime Minister of India, makes a comment about the BBC, all Indians will attach great importance to it and take it at face value! The people of India today give Modi's words about the BBC the same importance that anyone except those who participated in it and those associated with BJP organizations who see his Gujarat-like pogroms as a path of liberation would give to the words of someone who planned genocide, took the people's salaries and votes, sat in a position of power and implemented it. Do the people of India need know about the BBC through Modi?
Until 1945, during World War II, the people and the soldiers who were cut off from communication and who were in the trenches knew who was winning and who was losing, who was advancing and who was retreating, all this by listening to the BBC radio news, which reached anywhere in the world, across every sea and mountain. Those battery-powered transistors ensured the victory of the Allied powers over Hitler and Mussolini in many places. Military messages against Japan and Germany were given to Allied troops stranded in remote areas, cleverly interspersed with BBC news using coded words. One of the results of this overall political maneuvering was the independence of India, as well as many other colonial countries, in 1947 after World War II.
Now seventy years after the BBC saved the world, today in 2023, Prime Minister Modi, the BJP leader of India, who babbles with authoritarian arrogance that if he is exposed it would be BBC’s insulting India, was moving in his knickers then (he still is!). Today, a few people, who are slaves of Narendra Modi who in turn is one of Adani’s and Reliance’s, have come out and called the BBC's Modi video a disgrace, a plot, saying that mentioning Modi's crimes with evidence is an insult to India. What insult to India other than to Modi? Was it Modi and the BJP or the BBC that carried out the communal riots that killed thousands of people in India? Modi and the BJP are the insult to India. It is the response to this insult that are appearing in the world wherever there are Indians- even where there are no Indians!
Written on 26 January 2023 and first published in English on: 12 February 2026
