Is Censorship in India Murdering Artistic Value‪?‬ Raise the Question

The Indian censorship board's office is located in a posh area of south-central New Delhi. While approaching the office, one is given the impression that there may be serious official who sits around a table and discuss the artist's vision in a film or television production. But in reality, it is an office with 3 people who answer calls and push files. The highest authorities are never seen in the office and they can never be approached to ask for reasons for censorship or worse still, the status of one's application. This lethargy has now permeated to the quality of censorship in the country and very soon, it will be extended to the internet as well.

In this podcast, we discuss how censorship in India is like any other government-run enterprise: opaque, slow and too proud for its own good. But what can an artist to but adhere to the demands of this archaic system. Listen in to know how the internet will soon fall under its purview and how it does its own brand of moral policing in India.