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#IndiasDaughter

So the Indian Government has banned the BBC Four documentary ‘India’s Daughter’. The government highly underestimates those who have voted it into power. You ban it on TV, we will watch it on YouTube, and we will also download it because when you ban it on YouTube we will upload it again a million times for everyone to watch. We are Janata-Janardhan and we get what we want, we are smart like that. As shocking as the documentary is, the reaction of a lot of people is even more shocking. I openly supported BBC for broadcasting this documentary and chided those who indulged in abusive banter against the movie, against women and against democracy. There are people who have stated things such as “BBC is very much notorious for showing dark side of developing countries n always justifies its "white agent" role” (real quote from a highly educated and popular Telugu news reader on Facebook). For some people this whole episode went from a period of self-reflection to finding