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DESCRIPTION:INDIA: The Modi Question (BBC documentary)\n\nPublic screening and 
 discussion led by Mr. Imran Dawood\n\nRSVP:  
 https://tinyurl.com/FightHindutva \n\nThe current prime minister of India, 
 Narendra Modi, first elected in 2014, has not only refused to denounce acts 
 of caste terror and violence, pretending to be above the fray, but was 
 himself the chief instigator of the Gujarat riots of 2002 when he was chief 
 minister of that state. In those riots, Hindu mobs rampaged through Muslim 
 neighborhoods of Ahmedabad (the largest city in Gujarat state) killing at 
 least 1044 Muslims. A new two-part BBC documentary, India: The Modi 
 Question systematically lays out the evidence connecting Narendra Modi to 
 these horrific riots.\n\nThe screening will be followed by public 
 discussion led by Mr. Imran Dawood, survivor of the 2002 Gujarat genocide. 
 He is alive today only because the perpetrators thought they had killed 
 him. Mr. Dawood is a UK citizen who, at the tender age of 18, went on a 
 dream holiday to India with his two uncles, Saeed Dawood and Salik Dawood, 
 and a family friend, Mohammed Aswat. Together with their driver, they 
 became victims of a horrific and brutal lynching by a Hindu supremacist 
 mob. The driver was doused with petrol and set on fire. The rest were 
 chased, stabbed and burnt. They were brutalized enough to be assumed dead. 
 The killers walk free to this day.\n\nThe tendrils of Hindu nationalism 
 (Hindutva) have taken root here in the U.S.A. and are growing more menacing 
 by the day. The ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is the political wing 
 of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (National Volunteer Organization - RSS), 
 a Hindu nationalist paramilitary organization. The RSS operates outside 
 India as the Hindu Swayamsevak Sangh (HSS). Together with VHP America, Sewa 
 International, and the Hindu American Foundation, these organizations have 
 successfully masqueraded as progressive, charitable, cultural, civil or 
 democratic institutions in the U.S.A. But the government of India has 
 banned the screening of the BBC documentary in India.\n\nFree and open to 
 the public\nRSVP: https://tinyurl.com/FightHindutva\n\nSponsored by 
 Ambedkar King Study Circle (https://akscusa.org)\nCo-sponsored by NAACP San 
 José / Silicon Valley, Association of South Asians Taking Action (ASATA), 
 Hindus for Human Rights, Human Agenda, San José Peace & Justice Center, 
 Afro UPRIS, Indian American Muslim Council (IAMC), and Culture & Conflict 
 Forum\n https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2023/02/28/18854618.php
SUMMARY:India: The Modi Question (BBC documentary)
LOCATION:Roosevelt Community Center\n901 East Santa Clara Street\nSan José CA 
 95116\nParking accessible from North 21st Street
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2023/02/28/18854618.php
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