{"id":198,"date":"2004-01-18T10:12:20","date_gmt":"2004-01-18T14:12:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/jaskaran\/2004\/01\/18\/indian-filmmakers-feel-sting-of-cens"},"modified":"2004-01-18T10:12:20","modified_gmt":"2004-01-18T14:12:20","slug":"indian-filmmakers-feel-sting-of-censorship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jaskaran\/2004\/01\/18\/indian-filmmakers-feel-sting-of-censorship\/","title":{"rendered":"Indian Filmmakers Feel Sting of Censorship"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Several filmmakers focusing on the Gujarat massacre of Muslims in 2002 are <\/FONT>facing censorship difficulties<\/FONT><\/A> in India.  In order to show their documentaries to large public audiences, they must receive a certificate from the Indian censorship board.  These films have also been rejected by Indian film festivals and have faced threats from Hindu extremist groups:<\/FONT><\/P>
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Filmmakers claim that such instances raise important questions about freedom of expression and signal a growing intolerance in Indian democracy. They say their films about Gujarat are secular weapons in a fight against the rise of Hindu nationalism in mainstream Indian politics and national discourse in the past decade.<\/EM><\/FONT><\/P><\/BLOCKQUOTE>
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Political censorship, threats, and attempts by the police to seize the prints have reduced the showings of these documentaries to international film festivals and small private gatherings in India.<\/FONT><\/P>
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An article in New Kerala gives more details on one of the films facing difficulties: <\/FONT>Final Solution<\/FONT><\/A>.<\/FONT><\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Several filmmakers focusing on the Gujarat massacre of Muslims in 2002 are facing censorship difficulties in India.  In order to show their documentaries to large public audiences, they must receive a certificate from the Indian censorship board.  These films have also been rejected by Indian film festivals and have faced threats from Hindu extremist groups: […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1193,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jaskaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jaskaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jaskaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jaskaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1193"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jaskaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jaskaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jaskaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jaskaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/jaskaran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}