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🗓️ 5 February 2021

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Last week, in response to protests by farmers outside New Delhi, India, the government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi restricted access to the mobile web in areas where the protests were unfolding. The move is the latest in the Indian government’s long history of throttling internet access and censoring speech online. Why is the Modi government increasingly shutting down the internet and stifling digital dissent? And what does the party’s history of internet shutdowns tell us about India’s future? Guest: Pranav Dixit, correspondent for Buzzfeed News Host Lizzie O’Leary Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Shoo!
0:01.0	Chuck!
0:02.0	RIPPublic Day in New Delhi started off like every other Republic day.
0:20.5	Pranav Dixit lives in New Delhi and he covers tech for Buzzfeed.
0:24.1	It was a nice sunny day for a change.
0:26.4	We've been having like a harsh winter.
0:29.6	RIPPday falls on January 26th and it honors India's constitution which went into effect
0:34.9	on that day in 1950.
0:37.4	It's a big deal.
0:39.6	And this is the main battle tank of the Indian Army.
0:42.9	Schools and businesses are closed.
0:44.4	There are huge parades through Delhi.
0:46.7	Airplanes and helicopters fly overhead.
0:49.4	Soldiers march in formation.
0:51.3	And Prime Minister Narendra Modi looks on.
0:54.4	So the parade went well.
1:01.8	But as that was happening thousands and thousands of farmers decided that they were going to
1:05.7	storm in on that day.
1:10.5	The farmers had gathered from all around India to protest new agricultural laws that they
1:15.0	say hurt workers.
1:16.4	They had been camped outside the center of the city and under public day they went in.
1:22.3	Some more on foot, others driving tractors and they made their way toward police paracades.
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