Kanwaljeet Singh

In a recent meeting with Indian government officials, Netflix India’s content chief, Monika Shergill, pledged the platform’s commitment to producing content that is sensitive to and respectful of the nation’s sentiments. This assurance came in the wake of significant backlash against the streaming giant’s new series, IC 814: The Kandahar Hijack, which depicted the 1999 … Read more

The release of the Netflix series IC 814: The Kandahar Hijack has ignited a fierce debate in India, with allegations of historical inaccuracies and potential religious offence. The series, a dramatization of the 1999 hijacking of Indian Airlines flight IC 814 by the Pakistan-based terrorist group Harkat-ul-Mujahideen, has come under scrutiny for its portrayal of … Read more