GitHub repo: github.com/hejhdiss/Truth-Of-India
Live site: https://truthofindia.hejhdiss.workers.dev/
You might be wondering what a collection of investigative articles about Indian politics is doing on a tech platform.
Fair question. Here is the honest answer: this affects you directly — if you are a developer, startup founder, investor, or anyone building something in or with India.
India Shut Down the Internet More Than Any Country on Earth — Five Years Running
India is the world's largest democracy. It is also the world's number one executor of internet shutdowns, five consecutive years in a row. In 2022 alone, India was responsible for 84 of the 187 internet shutdowns recorded globally — nearly half the world's total. A peer-reviewed study published in the journal Democratization found this is not politically neutral: shutdowns are 3.5 times more frequent in BJP-governed states than in others.
Every time the internet goes down in a region, developers lose working hours, remote workers lose income, startups lose transactions, and businesses lose customers. The Kashmir Chamber of Commerce estimated 500,000 people lost their jobs during a single 2019 shutdown.
India's own Parliamentary Standing Committee called this "gross misuse causing untold suffering." The government's response? It told Parliament it does not even keep central records of shutdowns.
If you are building a product that serves Indian users — or building in India — this is your infrastructure risk. It is not theoretical. It has a dollar cost: $184 million in economic damage in 2022 alone, and that is a documented undercount.
Why This Is Being Posted on a Tech Site — And Why It Affects the Industry
Foreign Direct Investment into India fell from $10.1 billion to $353 million in FY2025 — a 96.5% collapse. Startup funding dropped 62%. Fintech funding dropped 63%. Indian startups raised $30.4 billion in 2024. Chinese firms raised $845 billion in a comparable period.
This does not happen in a vacuum. It happens when:
- Tech companies face police raids for refusing government censorship orders
- IIM and IIT directors resign over political interference in academic leadership
- Research funding is redirected to government-approved topics while independent inquiry is defunded
- The rule of law is applied selectively based on political loyalty
The innovation pipeline — the universities, research labs, and free intellectual environment that produces your next engineer, your next founder, your next breakthrough — is being systematically hollowed out. When the RSS directs PhD thesis topics and university seminars on democracy get cancelled, the damage shows up years later in the talent pool that never existed.
Why I Built This — And Why I'm Sharing It Here
I am Muhammed Shafin P, from Malappuram, Kerala. I am not a journalist. I am a developer and an Indian citizen who spent time reading publicly available government data, Supreme Court records, NCRB statistics, and international reporting — and could not look away from what the numbers said.
I built truthofindia.netlify.app as a simple static site: one index.html, ten .md files, deployed on Netlify. The entire repo is open: github.com/hejhdiss/Truth-Of-India. The architecture is deliberately simple so anyone can fork it, translate it, or mirror it.
The site covers ten documented topics: farmer suicides, electoral corruption, violence against minorities, children's malnutrition, digital censorship — and yes, Palestine. I included Palestine specifically because a significant number of Indians have been fed a manufactured narrative that frames the conflict as religious rather than political. Many Indians — including many in tech communities — repeat pro-Israel talking points without knowing the documented history of the Nakba, the termination of 200,000 Palestinian work permits after October 7, or the fact that Indian workers were sent to fill those jobs at Netanyahu's personal request to Modi. These are not opinions. They are documented facts in publicly available sources, and Indian citizens deserve to know them.
India is the world's largest population. What happens to Indian democracy, Indian sovereignty, and Indian civil society does not stay inside India's borders. It shapes global tech supply chains, global startup ecosystems, and global politics.
What I Am Asking
Nothing expensive. Just this:
Read it. Share it. Fork it if you want.
Every article has its sources listed. Every claim is verifiable. If you find something wrong, say so — the whole point is that people think for themselves based on actual evidence.
There are hundreds of millions of Indians — including tens of millions in tech — who have never seen this information laid out in one place, clearly sourced. The BJP's media ecosystem is enormous. This site is small. But the internet is still (for now) on.
If even a few thousand more people read this and ask harder questions of the people asking for their votes, their taxes, and their silence — that is worth every line of code.
Hosting Change — Netlify → Cloudflare Workers
This project was previously hosted on Netlify (free tier). The Netlify deployment served the article .md files as static assets directly alongside index.html — the frontend fetched them at runtime using fetch('filename.md').
The free tier bandwidth limit was hit due to reader traffic, so the site has been migrated to Cloudflare Workers (free tier), which has no bandwidth cap.
What Changed for .md Files
On Netlify, .md article files (e.g. betrayal-of-palastenians.md, south-india-vs-rss-brainwash.md) were deployed as plain static files and fetched directly by the browser.
On Cloudflare Workers, static files must be explicitly bundled and served through the Worker script. Each .md file is included as part of the Worker's assets so the fetch() calls in index.html continue to work without any changes to the frontend code.
Why Cloudflare
- No bandwidth limits on the free tier
- Global CDN edge delivery
- Cloudflare's free tier handles high-traffic sites without throttling or suspension
- Zero config changes needed on the index.html side — the .md fetch logic remains identical
All articles are based on publicly verifiable sources: NCRB data, Supreme Court records, peer-reviewed research, UN reports, and internationally published journalism. Everything can be checked independently. That is the point.
Written by Muhammed Shafin P (hejhdiss) · Malappuram, Kerala · hejhdiss@gmail.com
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