The filling of the Central Board of Film Certification with the government’s own men gives it one more tool with which to pursue its saffron agenda (“ >Believing and seeing ”, Sunday Anchor page, Jan.25). The government began its attempts in this direction of saffronising education by making Sanskrit mandatory, and more recently in Haryana by proposing to compulsorily introduce the Bhagavad Gita in schools. One cannot ignore the flood of remarks that came in the wake of the Science Congress. Now, by gaining control of a supposedly impartial body like the Censor Board, the Centre can decide what kind of films Indians can see and what they cannot. What is next on the government’s agenda.
Sharada Sivaram,
Chennai
