@ezsasa
A counter to the documentary means another documentary or media repudiating it.
If Indian laws are broken, of course FIRs can be filed. But legal action should be against the persons violating the Indian laws - they can be fined or jailed. But the documentary should not be banned. It should be countered.
Two things :
In this day and age, reaction time is critical. If the documentary is seen by sufficient number of eye balls , damage is already done. No amount of counter propaganda will not be able to remedy the damage already done.
I am pretty sure almost everybody on this forum agrees with you on the counter propaganda point. One thing is clear we do not have a consolidated propaganda tool. It takes some time and money to build one. Ideally it should not be maintained by government, but government should be able to use it when necessary. Until such a consolidated propaganda tool is created, we are on our own.
But look at the positives out of this episode:
Modi govt has abundantly made it clear, the lines that should not be crossed.
UK companies have been fined 4bln USD within a week. Hypothetically I am assuming the message sent is that if UK govt was not willing to help us out in stopping the state owned BBC, the. Indian govt may not be able to help much on income tax dept.
Public reaction was intense, I don't think they were expecting the back lash. UK's own history of rapes have been brought back into highlight.
Indian bloggers have started naming and shaming Leslie udwin. Brits will think twice before taking such risk going further.
This episode has exposed a section of the media, who are willing to go any lengths to defame current govt.
The whole discussion on "Atrocity literature" has been brought to the fore. Earlier very few people believed that this existed.
Some legal loopholes have been exposed, namely that Britain does not care for indian laws.
There might be few more positives.
