What has escaped attention during the boiling outrage over Udta Punjab is the bizarre state of film censorship in India.
To take recent examples, Quentin Tarantino's mystery thriller The Hateful Eight (2015) which featured Samuel L Jackson and Kurt Russell, was randomly hacked by Pahlaj Nihalani-led CBFC ostensibly because of its "gory scenes and violence against women."
Shahid Kapoor and Alia Bhatt at a publicity...
