The Nadine Gordimer test<\/b><\/p>\n
The Censor Board\u2019s decision to block access to an important movie on contemporary issues about India once again points towards its complicity with the Indian nanny state that tells us what to eat, what to see, what to wear, who to love, when to marry, who not to marry. Nadine Gordimer, the South African novelist, said in response to a question about her books being repeatedly banned by the apartheid regime: \u201cIt would have been an insult if they hadn\u2019t been banned. This was an honour.\u201d For writers and artists in India, every ban, every act of censorship should now be accepted as an honour. If our work does not get censored, it probably means that it is missing the note somewhere.<\/p>\n
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