{"id":52616,"date":"2023-02-15T02:32:02","date_gmt":"2023-02-14T17:32:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/feb\/14\/why-is-bbc-report-on-narendra-modis-handling-of-sectarian-riots-in-2002-so-controversial"},"modified":"2023-02-15T02:32:02","modified_gmt":"2023-02-14T17:32:02","slug":"what-is-the-bbc-modi-documentary-and-why-is-it-so-controversial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=52616","title":{"rendered":"What is the BBC Modi documentary and why is it so controversial?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018India: the Modi Question\u2019, examining  2002 sectarian riots, comes at sensitive time for prime minister<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/feb\/14\/bbc-offices-india-raided-tax-officials-modi-documentary-fallout\">BBC offices in India raided<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A BBC documentary on the Indian prime minister, Narendra Modi\u2019s, actions during deadly sectarian riots in 2002 continues to cause controversy, with the British broadcaster\u2019s offices raided by India\u2019s tax officials on Tuesday. What is the documentary and why has it proved so contentious?<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/feb\/14\/why-is-bbc-report-on-narendra-modis-handling-of-sectarian-riots-in-2002-so-controversial\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018India: the Modi Question\u2019, examining  2002 sectarian riots, comes at sensitive time for prime minister\u2022 BBC offices in India raidedA BBC documentary on the Indian prime minister, Narendra Modi\u2019s, actions during deadly sectarian riots in 2002 continues&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":663,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1762,516,62,447,433,54,61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bbc","category-hinduism","category-india","category-islam","category-narendra-modi","category-press-freedom","category-south-and-central-asia"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52616","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/663"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=52616"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52616\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52617,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52616\/revisions\/52617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}