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Why India Loves To Ban Films

MEDIA Posted: August 22, 2014 1:26 pm

“Social scientist Shiv Visvanathan says frequent calls to ban films are part of a broader malaise in a country where ‘a lot of people have made their careers in sensitivities. There are fringe groups in India which mobilise people around issues of obscenity, dirty movies, dirty pictures.’ Political parties like the Congress are particularly touchy, he says, about films that ‘challenge their folklore’.”

MEDIA Published: 08.21.14

Read the story in BBC Published: 08.21.14

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