The BBC documentary, ‘India: The Modi Question’, exposed the vulnerability of our polity to foreign forces that are campaigning against Narendra Modi and the BJP government in power. The banning of the documentary in India by the government and preventing the social media from disseminating it was heavily criticised by the political Opposition as a suppression of the truth — despite the fact that the Supreme Court has exonerated Modi of any guilt — and a curb on freedom of expression. Some student communities defied the ban as a political protest. The documentary served to revive, as was intended, a…