'All majoritarian groups feel emboldened. Many fascist groups in the nation desire to suppress free thought and expression. Thiruchencode has become a laboratory. What happens here will affect writers across the nation.'
Much din has been created about the I&B ministry's directive to shift the telecast of The Dirty Picture from 12 noon to after 11 pm. Perhaps it's time for a little perspective.
Despite impoverishment beyond imagination, caste and religion are strong emotive factors here that the issue of development will find difficult to dislodge
Soul searching? Hardly. The "emergency protocol" that some news channels rolled out in a hurry is just a pithy reconstruction of a code that the government itself had put together two years ago. Why the hysteria then? And why the hurried embrace now?