Inside the Hindu IT Cell: The men who went online to protect gods âWe donât target people who are good. We target people who are targeting Hindus, targeting Hindutva, targeting India. Itâs their fault.â Shambhavi Thakur In the summer of 2020, with India locked down to slow the spread of the Covid pandemic, the Narendra Modi government decided to switch on some nostalgia: it ordered Doordarshan to replay two popular 1990s TV shows based on the Hindu epics Mahabharata and Ramayana. The minister for information and broadcasting, Prakash Javadekar, declared the state broadcas...