The Updated List of India's 'Anti-Nationals' (According to the Modi Government) Anyone pointing out the Centreâs shortfalls â farmers, lawyers, journalists, comedians, activists, students â is branded not 'anti-government' but anti-national. Demonstrators shout slogans behind police barricades during a protest demanding the release of social activists who, according to them, were arrested by the police for supporting farmers' protest against farm laws, in New Delhi, India, February 15, 2021. Photo: Reuters/Danish Siddiqui Rights19/Feb/2021 Mumbai: It was anybodyâs guess that the Narendra Modi-led government would be intolerant of critical voices. Anyone pointing to the governmentâs shortfalls ought to have been branded anti-government. But the past years saw a decided shift from the âanti- governmentâ perspective to one where anyone critiquing the government was called âanti-nationalâ. And it is not just the usual activists or rationalists who were contemptuously derided of being âanti-nationalâ â farmers, lawyers, journalists, comedians, everyone has joined the rank.