Mobilenews24x7 Bureau (Exclusive)
It has transpired as it did the reactions to the BBC documentary and was dubbed as an organization fuelled by malaise to defame a certain nation was not taken in the right spirit subsequently. The immediate raids there on smacked allegedly of intended attempt to silence the media.
It reminds of the colonial era when the power becomes more important than a nation where the voice of dissent halts. The issue is the docu had intentional jibes on the Indian government and PM Modi during the 2002 riots in Gujarat.
It was a raid that hardly had any impact on the legality part not augured well for the voices of dissent that got maginalised.
It that was nationalism then it did not have its manifestation in subsequent debates even. That was a forced narrative merely to press on national security and so on which sounded shrill.
For instance, the government first justified blocking the BBC documentary on the pretext that it attacked the Indian sovereignty. Similarly, after the IT survey on Tuesday, the regime defended the crackdown by highlighting the BBC’s malicious intentions against India.
Nationalism, thus, becomes a tool for people in power  to defend power (politically, socially, culturally, and economically) by subjugating defiance and rational argument that turns the nation into an Orwellian state under which nationalism is about holding power rather than loving the nation.
