Profanity is not allowed even when it is in a foreign language.
What the censors cut: ‘Parched’, ‘The Magnificent Seven’
Your guide to what you were not allowed to watch or hear in the week’s releases.
Reading
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1How the ghats of Banaras became a defining image of the ancient city
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2How Indian school teachers are trying to battle Bollywood’s Hindutva history deluge
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3‘A warning to all’: What Rajiv Gandhi wrote in the guestbook of a WWII memorial in Belarus
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4‘Sikandar’ review: Film that champions organ donation is in dire need of a brain transplant
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5The erasure of Tibet’s linguistic diversity
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6Sajni Mukherji (1945–2025): Beloved literature professor at Jadavpur University and a friend to all
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7Pramoedya Ananta Toer: Hundred years of a fearless Indonesian literary icon
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8From the memoir: A longtime Indian Railways employee remembers her first posting at a remote station
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9The world of Lalla: A journey into the heart of the 14th-century Kashmiri mystic poetess
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10In Kerala, the disastrous ripple effects of seabed sand mining
