Fighting Censorship
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If censorship were to return, could today’s writers learn from their Victorian counterparts?
Limits of acceptability and literary censorship inspired creative ways of writing for the Victorians.
Stephanie Meek, The Conversation
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In Pakistan, a youth-led, social media-powered movement is gaining ground – despite a media blackout
The Pashtun Tahaffuz Movement was born out of protests in support of Naqeebullah Mehsud – who was labelled a terrorist and killed by the police.
Beena Sarwar
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An art student uses Khajuraho's erotic drawings to teach Indian moral police a lesson
Akshita Chandra's pop-up art project, Being Censitive, is a challenge to censorship.
Rhema Mukti Baxter
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'Udta Punjab' makers move Bombay High Court against censor board
CBFC Chairman Pahlaj Nihalani had accused the film's co-producer Anurag Kashyap of taking bribes from political parties to depict the state unfavourably.
Scroll Staff
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Till the 66A judgment, the last time a court struck down a law censoring speech was 55 years ago
In 1960, the Supreme Court scrapped Section 3 of the UP Special Powers Act used to muzzle Ram Manohar Lohia.
Shoaib Daniyal