Do Indians feel free under Modi sarkar? Some of these reactions will shock you

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Who's Modi to discipline us?

Narendra Modi’s economic and technological policies might have limited impact despite the presence of stellar experts like Arvind Panagriya, Raghuram Rajan and Arvind Subramanian. If the first year of his regime has created anything it is not a regulation of the economy but a "civics of morality" or even of a preferred style of citizenship.

In fact, when, on "xyz", his regime decided to ban 857 pornographic sites, later revoked, it was clear one was witnessing the making of a repressive society as a complement to his politics of majoritarianism. The banning of pornographic sites is located within his wider dreams of a new surveillance society. We are witnessing the unfolding of something systematic and conceptual. It involves a connection between security, safety, sustainability, sexuality and sedition. The regime is trying to create the civics of a new man. Read more here.

Why Modi sarkar must stop playing news editor

The ministry of information and broadcasting has swung into action to defend the honour of the Indian judiciary and the President of India. We are told that three TV news channels have disgraced the head of state and the final arbiter of the Constitution. Such disgrace has been hurled by considering a different point of view on giving capital punishment to Yakub Memon.

Here are the sins committed by ABP News, Aaj Tak and NDTV 24x7. They aired phone interviews with Chota Shakeel, a wanted man. That Chota Shakeel said Yakub Memon was innocent, that justice had not been done to him and that Shakeel didn't believe the court. NDTV aired an interview of Memon's lawyer who pointed out that many countries have done away with the death penalty. Read more here.

Is Modi's development plan only about imposing bans?

When chauvinism of any kind becomes the hallmark of the actions or intentions of a group or an individual, it comes as no surprise if every action of that individual or group, including some with the best of intentions, are viewed with suspicion by those watching.

Those manning the various portfolios of the current government know fully well, as anybody else does, that many of its members have from time to time found themselves accused of displaying various forms of chauvinism — religious, linguistic, cultural or even the most common of them all, gender. Read more here.