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Friday, December 12, 2025
TopicCensorship

Topic: Censorship

Emergency-era censorship affected films so badly that even a spot of blood was cut out

Kishore Kumar's songs were taken off AIR. Stars such as Dev Anand were harassed. Even Raj Kapoor and Satyajit Ray were given advice on film-making.

Google employees claim they are being censored at work

Google says its new community guidelines are an effort to curb increased incivility at work.

As an artiste, I would never support censorship: Actor Shweta Tripathi

At ThePrint’s Democracy Wall, Shweta Tripathi gets candid about age-related discrimination, celebs’ political opinions, web series trend and more.

India makes most requests for net censorship, more than even Russia & Pakistan, says study

India also topped the individual list for requests made to Facebook, 70,815, which is 91 per cent of the total appeals forwarded by the country.

China is stifling its own movie business

China, the world’s second largest cinema-market, battles tough govt censorship, while a clamp down on tax evasion is spooking investors.

It’s not just people, in Imran Khan’s Naya Pakistan interviews go missing too

Creeping fascism is what defines Naya Pakistan. What doesn’t please the ear, won’t be heard.

It’s regressive, NYT is the loser, Indian cartoonists say as it scraps political cartoons

Cartoonists say ‘better newspapers’ in India give them a free hand and digital publications are helping their cause.

Consolidation of online platforms with the intent of censorship does not always help

Social media companies amassed billions of users by promising space for free expression. But in their effort to offend nobody, they’ve managed to anger everybody. 

Pakistan media was no angel either after Balakot with its half-truths and denials

Pakistan media can’t hope for peace by denying the reality on ground or about groups that have also caused havoc on Pakistani soil.

When Nehru’s India banned a story on Gandhi’s murder and Godse’s past

Nine Hours to Rama reflects our complicated relationship with censorship.

On Camera

IndiGo cancellations made TV news do the unexpected — question the Modi government

Republic TV was the harshest of them all: “The (civil aviation) minister has done a bad job,” said prime time anchor Arnab Goswami.

IndiGo’s profits dipped, most airlines sunk into losses last fiscal even as flier numbers soared

Despite growing passenger volume, 11 out of 14 carriers reported losses in 2023-24. IndiGo recorded profit of Rs 8,167 crore, which reduced to Rs 7.253 crore in 2024-25.

Dubai Tejas crash revives focus on advanced, fully automated safety systems

Dubai airshow crash & pilot death have rekindled concerns over pilot safety, and need for smarter automated systems that can step in when G-forces, temporary loss of consciousness hit the pilot.

Asim Munir & Pakistan’s Failed Marshal Doctrine

None of Pakistan’s PMs has lasted 5 years. That the current PM has given Asim Munir 5 years shows that of all military dictatorships history has seen, Pakistan’s is most creative.