Posts Tagged With: Censorship
Television Taboos
Synchronicity is a wonderful thing. In an effort to blinker myself from the mindless violence that’s raging through post-election Uttar Pradesh, I’ve started watching anything but the news when the TV is on in the house. Now, I’m not the one who watches much telly in this house but anyone even passes by the threshold [...]
Remembering Shanghai
Did I mention I went to Shanghai at the end of last year? Well, I did. Obviously, the first thing that I wanted to ask anyone I met was along the lines of, “What’s it like to have no freedom of speech?”, but I did manage to restrain myself. It was, in most cases, the [...]
Cub culture
There are some greetings that don’t work belatedly. The Bengali Bijoya (which is also North India’s Dussehra) is one of them. Of course, Bengalis, being the sort who can stretch out anything and everything, manage to make Bijoya continue for as long as two weeks (by which time, it’s generally Lakshmi Puja and everyone gets [...]
World Domination
