Category Censorship
वो तुम्हे #गौमूत्र पर ले जाने की कोशिश करेगें, पर तुम #पेट्रोल पर अड़े रहना !! वो तुम्हे #हिन्दू_मुस्लिम पर ले जाने की कोशिश करेगें, तुम #जॉब_गैस_राशन पर अड़े रहना !! वो #मंदिर बनाने की बात करेगें, तुम… Continue Reading →
By The Last Caveman @CarDroidusMax The 1965 film would cause the Sangh Parivar to take major umbrage at its inter-faith romance. Chemmeen, the 1965 Malayalam-language movie needs no introduction to any Keralite. This movie-adaptation of Thakazhi Sivasankara Pillai’s eponymous… Continue Reading →
You can’t cry foul at channels censoring Game Of Thrones or not giving a film certificate to Lipstick Under My Burkha because you like their storylines, even if the government doesn’t Rajyasree Sen A still from ‘Pehredar Piya Ki’. Almost… Continue Reading →
Gautam Bhatia17 AUGUST 2017 00:02 IST Censorship exists in India to the extent it does because it is both easy and efficient to accomplish Independence Day is an occasion to celebrate freedom from a colonial regime that not only cast… Continue Reading →
Doordarshan and All India Radio on Tuesday refused to air Tripura CM Manik Sarka’s speech and instead asked him to “reshape” the speech, which he refused. Tushar Dhara | News18.com Chief Minister of Tripura Manik Sarkar inspects soldiers on a parade during… Continue Reading →
Indrajit Hazra If there is one thing that irks a regime — however much it may deny it and makes a virtue out of being an unsophisticated boor – it is being accused of being an unsophisticated boor. Things have… Continue Reading →
Award-winning Santal author Hansda Sowvendra Shekhar, who has written the acclaimed novel The Mysterious Ailment of Rupi Baskey (2014) and a collection of stories, The Adivasi Will Not Dance (2015), both works of fiction that explore the Adivasi life, suddenly finds himself thick in the… Continue Reading →
Sowvendra Shekhar Hansda is under fire for allegedly portraying Santhal women in poor light Hansda Sowvendra Shekhar Ranchi, Aug. 11: The Jharkhand government has banned an almost two-year-old collection of short stories by the winner of a Sahitya Akademi award… Continue Reading →
B The book traces the arc of self-styled godman and business tycoon Baba Ramdev’s (above) life A Delhi court’s interim injunction on sale of ‘Godman to Tycoon’ was passed without representation from the publishers and author. Yoga guru Ramdev is… Continue Reading →
By Nikhil Pahwa In what is an inexplicable instance of censorship, India appears to have blocked access to the Internet Archive (also known as the Internet Wayback Machine). The block seems to be new, and is currently propagating. We checked, and on visiting… Continue Reading →