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Tragedy and Farce in NDA Government's Handling of IC-814 Hijacking; SC to Review BJP's Bulldozer 'Justice'

Sep 02, 2024
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September 2, 2024

Siddharth Varadarajan

If the Vajpayee government’s handling of the dastardly hijacking of an Indian Airlines flight, IC-814, on December 31, 1999 was a tragedy, the Modi government’s handling of a television series by director Anubhav Sinha on the incident is a farce.

Egged on by ignorant Hindutva trolls on social media, the Information and Broadcasting Ministry has “summoned” the head of Netflix India

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