The Central Board of Film Certification cannot control the internet (just yet) but it certainly can and does protect certain personalities from satire in the movies, such as Baba Shamdev (a reference to the wealthy godman Baba Ramdev). Meanwhile, Thithi (a certificate is not available) had to mute profanity and bleep out a visual of one of the characters looking at sexually explicit photographs.
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Mumbai principal sacked after being targeted by Hindutva website; says she is mulling legal action
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What did Vinayak Damodar Savarkar think about Dalits praying in temples and eating with Brahmins?
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Mid-life running works wonders for the knees, hips and spine
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‘No educated person will vote for the BJP. What is the point of studying if we do not get jobs?’
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Translated short fiction: A 73-year-old Indian man goes to Bangladesh, his ‘land of birth’, to die
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Neel Mukherjee’s new novel: A publisher at war with his industry embarks on a radical experiment
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‘One of the greatest statesmen’: When Canada celebrated an Indian prime minister’s visit
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‘We are living in perpetual fear’: Prajwal Revanna video leaks spark panic among women in Hassan
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Interview: Rank, social status and how BJP balances upper-caste appeasement with its welfare push
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Need more than 400 seats in Parliament so Congress cannot put ‘Babri lock’ on Ram temple: PM Modi