Podcast | Digging Deeper- Decoding the Bhima Koregaon conflict
On 28 August, the news media was abuzz with the news of the Pune police conducting coordinated raids across the country on the homes of 10 activists, arresting five of them. The news was presented in the context of two suggestions. The first was that the arrests were made in connection with an alleged plot to assassinate Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The second was that the raids were linked to investigations into violence that occurred at Bhima Koregaon near Pune on January 1.