WHATEVER HAPPENED TO CENSORSHIP?

I am, and have always been strongly opposed to any kind of censorship. I just hate the idea of some geriatric prude sitting in a cubicle somewhere dictating what i can watch or not.

However since there is censorship of all kinds, both official and unofficial, in India, my question is, why is it selective.

There was this recent ruckus created over the accuracy of Jodha-Akbar by some fringe groups who incidentally on being interviewed admitted to not even having watched the movie. Yet they managed to get it banned in many areas.

Salman Rushdie's Satanic Verses similarly was banned on the basis that it may create trouble.

That's an example of censorship. Film and Literature style.

BUT who censors TV. News in particular.

Just because it is LIVE, is anything ok?

Rakhi Sawant built an entire career on one infamous kiss (which was shown maybe a million times)

Before Jab We Met made him a marquee star Shahid Kapoor was more famous for his MMS kiss with then flame Kareena.

Yet when Hrithik & Ash kissed in Dhoom 2 or when Richard Gere kissed Shilpa the poor guys had court cases filed against them.

The Darjeeling strike has been on for more than a week now and there are many people in different parts of Darjeeling who are on hunger strike and some quite critical too. Yet the national press seems to be oblivious to it all.

That is till Yesterday.

A few days back a woman was being interviewed by a news channel (and i use the word NEWS very loosely here) outside Pintail Village in Siliguri where the GNLF leader Ghising was holed up.

On being asked about her presence there she grimaced and in an accent that even the stereotyped fake nepali guard of hindi movies would find over the top said

"Ham Ghising ka khoon karna aaya hai. Ham maar daalega. Hamara ragho mein gorkhali ka khoon baghta hai. Saachi ham maar daalega"

The amused reporter then asked her,

"Aap ki ragho mein gorkhali ka khoon hai toh Ghising ka ragho mein kya hai?"

Without as much as a pause she answered

"Bhattacharji ka pishaab"

Now this became national news.

Infact its almost a catch phrase. If you disagree with anyone just say

"Saala tu hai (add any obnoxious politico's name here) ka pishaab"

I know that hardly any nepalis (let alone women) speak like that but if there are fringe characters who do, shouldnt they be censored? Dont they dilute the whole argument and the cause?

She has now become quite (in)famous in Darjeeling and quite fittingly, is apparantly known as the Rakhi Sawant Of The Hills.

Do we even need an agitaion anymore?