Shlok Sharma’s Haraamkhor, about the affair between a teacher and his minor student, waged a long and hard battle to get passed by the Central Board of Film Certification. The Film Certification Appellate Tribunal eventually cleared the film after it was turned down by the Examining Committee. The payoff: a scroll warning audiences that sex with minors is an offence in the scenes featuring Nawazuddin Siddiqui and Shweta Tripathi.
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How Sally Rooney became the ‘voice of a generation’
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Fiction: A teacher from Kerala takes a job in Dubai in the 1990s, but being an immigrant isn’t easy
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Indian writer Shahnaz Habib wins the 2024 New American Voices Award for her book ‘Airplane Mode’
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Does Supreme Court’s Section 6A order alter citizenship test for Bengali Hindus in Assam?
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Atta Galatta Bangalore Literature Festival announces its children’s books awards shortlists for 2024
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Fiction: The only way for Xavier to resolve his troubles is to know his scandalous ancestor, Francis
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Sightless no more: In decolonised garb, India’s new Lady Justice is a contradictory symbol
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‘Dealing with life lessons with a smile’: Shoojit Sircar on his new movie ‘I Want to Talk’
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2024 JCB Prize for Literature shortlist includes two debut novels and three translations
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Poetry: Five different translations of Shervin Hajipour’s Persian protest song ‘Baraye’