Here’s a bigger problem. Often it’s the ISPs that block websites on the mandate on the Government. There’ many ways of doing it, and they’re often easy to circumvent even without VPN. However. the most recent method is pretty damn shady -
This a is a completely opaque method of censorship that doesn’t even give you a blocked message but instead makes your browser throw an error. The first article is specific to Jio, the second one explores other ISPs, and I’ve seen this behavior on other ISPs not listed on their research as well