CutTheClutter: Modi Govt, Twitter, Jack Dorsey: what’s the fight about & nub of the issue

This is a special episode of Cut The Clutter, in that it deals with two issues. One is the controversy over the claims made by Twitter cofounder & former CEO Jack Dorsey that the platform received shutdown threats from the Modi government over tweet activity on the farmers’ protests. As an Opposition leader, Narendra Modi pretty much stole the social media march over his opponents with his efficient uptake of the new tool. So, how did we get here? Editor-in-Chief Shekhar Gupta explains in Ep XX. As for the other issue, we are taking forward last week’s National Interest on the emergence of a new Indian elite. Press play to hear the conversation it started.
----more----Read Twitter statement here: https://blog.twitter.com/en_in/topics/company/2020/twitters-response-indian-government----more----Read Shekhar Gupta's National Interest here: https://theprint.in/national-interest/college-pedigree-daddys-name-bbc-accent-no-longer-golden-ticket-india-has-a-growing-new-elite/1621127/----more----Read Sanya Dhingra's article here: https://theprint.in/india/governance/engineers-still-account-for-60-of-new-civil-servants-despite-upscs-attempts-at-diversity/528535/