A few more news articles to put this in context:

• VPN providers flee India because of new data law that mandates collection of customer data

• Govt proposes law to intercept encrypted messages on WhatsApp, Signal etc. Signal Says It Will Exit India Rather Than Compromise Its Encryption

• India sets up panel with veto power over social media content moderation

• Indian ISPs: We already give govt full access to web traffic

• India apparently purchased and used Pegasus against prominent journalists and senior politicians

• India ranks #1 in the world in terms of number of internet shutdows. Internet and phone services are shut down to quell protests.

• Youtube channels and social media channels are regularly blocked for spreading "fake news". No transparency why or what gets blocked.

• Thousands of websites blocked every year by the IT Ministry.

• Almost all top p0rn websites are blocked in India (total list ~900)

• In J&K, the India experimented with a whitelist of allowed websites (not a blacklist, a whitelist, everything else is blocked)