WHEN WILL "THEY" LEARN TO DISTINGUISH BETWEEN RELIGIOUS SENSIBILITIES AND CULTURAL ARTICULATION ???
We and our society are fast approaching a stage,when in gross violation to our constitutional fundamental rights,a lunatic fringe section of ruling polity will decide and dictate about our priorities and preferences in various compartments of our day to day life. These extra legal self styled moralist did not allow screening of Anand Patwardhan's award winning documentary 'Ram ke nam' at ILS's law college Pune ,only few days ago and same very elements are demanding ban on box office popular movie 'PK'- though highest constitutional authority of the land Supreme Court has already dismissed writ petition seeking ban on the movie.
Hypothetically speaking,if identical elements among Christians,demand 1988 made movie 'The last temptation of Christ',will ruling polity cave in under pressure and ban the movie ?Needless to say the film depicts Christ being tempted by imagining himself engaged in sexual activities ,a notion that has caused outrage from a section of Christians,though it has not been banned anywhere .
Are we going to be left only with laundered strips of art,literature and culture,simply because our politics are being increasingly conditioned by appeals to the sentiments and much publicized 'sensitivity' of various religious obscurantist groups ?
We and our society are fast approaching a stage,when in gross violation to our constitutional fundamental rights,a lunatic fringe section of ruling polity will decide and dictate about our priorities and preferences in various compartments of our day to day life. These extra legal self styled moralist did not allow screening of Anand Patwardhan's award winning documentary 'Ram ke nam' at ILS's law college Pune ,only few days ago and same very elements are demanding ban on box office popular movie 'PK'- though highest constitutional authority of the land Supreme Court has already dismissed writ petition seeking ban on the movie.
Hypothetically speaking,if identical elements among Christians,demand 1988 made movie 'The last temptation of Christ',will ruling polity cave in under pressure and ban the movie ?Needless to say the film depicts Christ being tempted by imagining himself engaged in sexual activities ,a notion that has caused outrage from a section of Christians,though it has not been banned anywhere .
Are we going to be left only with laundered strips of art,literature and culture,simply because our politics are being increasingly conditioned by appeals to the sentiments and much publicized 'sensitivity' of various religious obscurantist groups ?
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