What is the Indian Government going to ban next?Memory?
It was a book on Jinnah now it is a movie on Nehru's relationship with Edwina.
Can't politicians have a private life?Does it make him any lesser if he was in a relationship?We have always drawn flak for this prudish scrutiny of anything.It is this squeamish behaviour of the Indian government that gives you the illusion that you are being kicked into the Victorian era.Some of the objections raised in the script submitted to the I&B ministry are outright lame!
Government has this strange habit of poking its nose into everything/anything it finds objectionable,how you define objectionable is the dicey part.May be it comes with the way we Indians eulogize our leaders,so much so that we make gods out of them,sample the Nehru family or even Gandhi for example.No one can question the fact that they have been some of the greatest leaders world has seen but they were ordinary people when alive.India Today had to black out its cover story on Gandhi,an interview with Gopal Godse.Recently Sach Ka Samana(Indian version of Moment of Truth) also triggered a similar storm,worse yet in the Parliament.Wonder if this is all our MPs have time after those puerile debates sponsored by the taxpayer.
Free press has always been this long-unfulfilled dream of the world,not just the intelligentsia but the hoi polloi in general.With some fine boundaries though!
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