first contested for the prime minister's office, the ruling party, the bjp, its image managers worked assiduously to get rid of the shadow of gujarat riots, revamping his image from a chief minister who allowed anti—muslim violence to go unchecked to a chief minister who brought development to his state and promised to bring that for the rest of the country. and that messaging worked. the bjp won that election. modi became the prime minister. and since then, what we've seen is that large sections of the mainstream media in india have been reluctant to question the bjp�*s narrative. several media outlets uncritically amplify the establishment narrative to a point where the public memory of the 2002 gujarat riots has faded, worse, even got distorted in the process. and then comes this bbc documentary which reminds everyone of what happened. and it's now being viewed by a generation of indians born after 2002, who weren't familiar with the events that took place then and are now viewing this documentary in screening on campuses, screenings that administrators are clamping down against. in some places, we have seen that college administrators went to the extent of cutting off power and internet.