Mr. @prasoonjoshi_
Can you please enlighten us on why 127 cuts were recommended for the film Panjab '95?
The same film, now renamed ‘Satluj’, has been taken down from an OTT platform in less than two days. The CBFC has no jurisdiction over OTT platforms or international releases.
Panjab '95 tells the story of Jaswant Singh Khalra, a man who exposed documented human rights abuses and paid for it with his life. If a film based on documented facts cannot be seen by Indian audiences, then the public deserves to know why.
This sends a very direct message to filmmakers and production companies: if you're paying homage to a great personality from a minority community, you'll have to face the CBFC.
Journalists should be asking the people running this censor board some hard questions. Why are some politically insensitive films able to pass with ease while others spend years in limbo?
A red carpet for Kashmir Files, Bengal Files, and Kerala Story. Roses for Dhurandar 1 & 2, a fictional documentary/explainer for the unthinkable and the unexplainable.
How does it feel to feast on four years of a director's career?
In Nehru's India, this would have been litigated in court. If filmmakers cannot tell the stories of people who stood up for justice without years of obstruction, what kind of cinema are we encouraging them to make?
Jaswant Singh Khalra Abducted again,
This time by the CBFC
An iconic American businessman and the right-hand man to Warren Buffett, Charlie Munger exposed the fake economics of ethanol decades ago:
“It takes more energy to create ethanol than you can get out of it.”
Spending more energy to produce less fuel is a terrible way to fix a crisis, as Munger explained.
Yet, the Modi govt rammed the mandatory E20 rollout down our throats.
The real-world results?
- Zero choice at the pump
- Hard-hitting drops in vehicle mileage
- High maintenance cost, and wear & tears in engines of non-compatible E20 vehicles
- Diverting public food grains during sticky food inflation
The wildest part? The AG literally just called E20 an "experiment" in a Supreme Court hearing.
The Indian public shouldn't be treated as lab rats for a forced policy that trades consumer choice and food security for corporate optics.
The peak irony of the "Ayodhya Development Model" caught on camera.
The staircase inside the Ayodhya Development Authority (ADA) headquarters collapsed today, leaving BJP MLA Ved Prakash Gupta and several officials with a narrow escape.
The absolute mockery here? The ADA is the exact body tasked with overseeing, planning, and certifying the safety of the city's massive infrastructure boom.
If the government’s own development authority cannot guarantee the structural integrity of its own office, what does it say about the quality control of the multi-crore public projects happening outside?
For everyone who’s asking when will be performing in Mumbai. I’d need 145 MLA’s,
7500 Crores, ED, EC, CBI, A Party Symbol & Court Judgement…
If anyone has any leads let me know
😂😂😂
🔴#BREAKING | 15+ vehicles crash in 10 minutes in Palghar on Rs 620 crore worth Mumbai-Ahmedabad highway
NDTV's @sujata_dwivedi joins @reetksahni with more details
SMART Cities? Or SINKING cities? A newly built road in Surat collapses, swallowing a water tanker. Every monsoon exposes the same story: poor construction, zero accountability, and public money literally sinking into the potholed ground. Will Govt give us an audit of where the Smart City funds went? Or some questions can’t be asked? 😡
Yogi got 3-4 criminal cases on him withdrawn when he became CM. And people expect this man to honestly probe the mandir loot.
A totally delusional country.
Car 24 करके एक यूट्यूब चैनल द्वारा एक वीडियो बनाया गया था 0 एथेनाल और E20 तेल डलाकर।
जिसमें साफ दिखा कि E-0 पेट्रोल से गाड़ी का एवरेज 22km/l के आसपास था और E20 पेट्रोल में 14km/l था।
लेकिन अब उन्होंने यह वीडियो गड़बड़ी मंत्री जी के दबाव में वीडियो डीलिट कर दिया है।
UP says it got Rs 33.5 lakh crore in investments. We checked some companies behind those claims
One guy signed a Rs 18,000 cr MoU from a rented flat in Ghaziabad. He's also named in an FIR by ITC Maurya for not paying bills. Don't miss this by @Basantrajsonu
https://t.co/QifQy4pYqs
As a student of history, I have to say that it is unfortunate that persons holding Constitutional positions like @myogiadityanath have serious academic & intellectual deficit .
The Partition of India was the tragic culmination of long-term structural factors, shifting political dynamics, and strategic miscalculations, rather than the "fault" of any single party.
One reason was the Two-Nation Theory & Muslim League Mobilization
advocated by Muhammad Ali Jinnah and the All-India Muslim League, this theory posited that Hindus and Muslims were distinct nations requiring separate homelands. Savarkar (1937) endorsed 'two nations' idea, mirroring Jinnah.
The Turning Point came during 1940 Lahore Resolution formally demanded autonomous states in Muslim-majority regions.
By the 1945–46 elections, the League won an overwhelming majority of Muslim seats, cementing its position as the sole representative of Indian Muslims and turning the demand for Pakistan into a mass movement.
Hindu Mahasabha allied with Muslim League in Bengal, Sindh, NWFP govts (1940s), even as Pakistan Resolution was pushed.
Hindu Mahasabha pushed for Bengal partition on communal lines.
It contributed to communal polarisation alongside League. Partition was tragedy fueled by multiple players, not just one
Second was the British "Divide and Rule" and its hasty Retreat.
British imperial policy systematically institutionalized religious divisions to counter nationalist unity. The introduction of separate electorates in 1909 communalized the electoral system.
Third, exhausted by World War II, facing economic strain, and fearing mutiny within the Indian armed forces, the British government (under Attlee and Viceroy Mountbatten) rushed the independence timeline forward by ten months. This hasty exit left no time to resolve complex boundary and minority safety issues.
Fourth, the communal violence aggravated the situation .Political deadlock quickly translated into societal trauma. The League’s call for "Direct Action Day" in August 1946 triggered the Great Calcutta Killings. The ensuing cycle of retaliatory violence across Punjab and Bengal convinced leaders on all sides that a unified central government would collapse into a total civil war.
Fifth, there was breakdown of Negotiations
Congress leaders (including Mahatma Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru, and Vallabhbhai Patel) consistently fought for a united, secular India.
However, the failure of the 1946 Cabinet Mission Plan, a last-ditch effort at a loose, three-tiered federal structure,broke the final chance for unity due to mutual mistrust over how provincial groupings would work.
Partition was a collective tragedy. Congress reluctantly accepted it as a grim, last-resort compromise to prevent total civil war and secure a functioning central government for the rest of India.Sardar Patel himself noted that if Congress hadn't accepted Partition, India would have fractured into dozens of warring pieces. It was a painful surgical strike to save the rest of the nation from an endless civil war.
History isn't Hindutva propaganda .Partition was collective failure,not Congress "surrender". Congress (Gandhi, Nehru, Patel) fought for united India till end , accepted only to avert civil war .