Censor Board and its uncensored leelas

[Dr. Jai Maharaj]

CENSOR BOARD AND ITS UNCENSORED LEELAS

By Anish Gupta; Tamal Dasgupta
Op-Ed
The Pioneer
http://www.dailypioneer.com
Saturday, January 31, 2015

Censorship is a trespass against any free society and is
perhaps an insult to any mature adult who is capable of
voting. It has been a long-held practice of the CBFC to
allow a film which is derogatory for Hindus but disallow
anything where an objection is raised by some minority
groups

Many developed countries do not have a mechanism for film
censorship though they have a system of certification
which is quite different from censorship. When we do not
have censorship in books, music, media, and we rightly
condemn the Press censorship that was imposed in India
during Emergency, it escapes simple reasoning why the
same logic should not be extended to film censorship.

Moreover, as we all know, film censorship was introduced
by the British to keep tabs on our film industry so that
it refrained from bringing sedition to celluloid.
Censorship is a trespass against any free society and is
perhaps an insult to any mature adult who is capable of
voting. The recent resignation of the chairperson and
some other members of CBFC raised the issues of the
manipulative system of appointment and Government
interference in what is a supposedly autonomous body.

Continues at:

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Jai Maharaj, Jyotishi
Om Shanti

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