The Indian people want the government to have total control over the internet.

You feel that's horrible? Sure, that's your right. But the moral universalism of the anglophone cultural sphere has long alienated a majority of Indians exposed to it, that at this point their opinions do not get any goodwill from Indians.

Progressive media has published enough news that run absolutely opposite to the lived experience of a majority of the Indians that at this point they don't give a crap.

I would even say that every report of far-right authoritarianism of Modu's India liberal media publishes, greater the support for Modi from Indians. I say this as someone who thinks of him as an absolutely mediocre administrator.

It seems to be a common issue among liberal anglophones to confuse democracy with liberal democracy.