June 12, 2006

Cheap Politics?

I was pleased to read this article from The Hindu as I was also thinking on the same lines a couple of weeks ago. The article compares the banning of the DaVinci Code by the TamilNadu government with the past track record of the very people who run the current government.

The film Parasakthi, for which the dialogues were penned by the current TN CM, contained scenes that denigrated temple priests and talked ill of idol worship. While this film was released without any censorship by the TN government of 1952, the current government thought it fit to ban the DaVinci Code “as it affected the sentiments of the minority community”. I am very sure not even one of the persons responsible for banning the movie in TN had an idea of what the movie was about.

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  1. Hi Karthik,
    Interesting, I had also blogged about the same act..

    no idealogy - only votes count!

    Comment by sathish — June 17, 2006 @ 1:12:24 AM

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