🖋️ From The Desk of Abhijeet Rane
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- Oct 14
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🖋️ From The Desk of Abhijeet Rane
When Sentiment Becomes Censorship! In Maharashtra, a film titled Manache Shlok was silenced not by critics, but by sentiment. The irony? It had passed the censor board—the very institution meant to arbitrate public decency. But in today’s climate, mobs outrank mandates. Theatres shuttered, posters torn, and a director forced to rename her work. This isn’t cultural sensitivity—it’s cultural hostage-taking. When fringe outrage overrides institutional approval, art becomes a hostage to emotion, not expression. The same fate looms over Khalid Ka Shivaji, another film stalled by fury. If every title must pass a litmus test of reverence, creativity will be reduced to apology. The question isn’t whether feelings were hurt. It’s whether we still believe in a society where art can provoke without being punished.
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Durand Line Diplomacy: A Border Drawn in Blood. The Taliban claims to have killed 58 Pakistani soldiers. Pakistan insists it responded “with full force.” Somewhere between these dueling press conferences, the Durand Line bleeds again. This isn’t just a skirmish—it’s a symptom. A failed border, a failed trust, and two regimes locked in a cycle of denial and retaliation. Kabul accuses Islamabad of harboring ISIS. Islamabad accuses Kabul of provocation. Both deny responsibility, yet both bury their dead. And while Saudi Arabia calls for restraint, the region inches closer to a proxy war dressed as patriotism. When diplomacy is reduced to casualty counts and press briefings, the real victims are not just soldiers—they’re the civilians caught between two flags, and the idea of peace itself.
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Selective Outrage and the Politics of Bans! When Priyank Kharge demands a ban on RSS events in schools, parks—even temples—it’s not just a policy suggestion. It’s a declaration of ideological war. The Congress party’s discomfort with RSS is historic, but banning a legally functioning organization from public spaces sets a dangerous precedent. Especially when the same voices remain conspicuously soft on radical outfits like PFI. If secularism means silencing one side while indulging another, it’s no longer secular—it’s strategic censorship. Public spaces belong to the public, not to partisan vetoes. And if patriotism expressed through RSS shakhas is deemed toxic, then the real phobia isn’t against Hindutva—it’s against any grassroots movement Congress can’t control. The question isn’t who gets banned. It’s who gets to decide.
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Diwali Discounts and Political Dividends! When Sangram Jagtap urged Hindus to shop only from Hindus this Diwali, it wasn’t just a communal slip—it was a litmus test for his party’s secular posturing. Ajit Pawar’s swift notice signaled ideological discipline. But Supriya Sule’s public rebuke—demanding expulsion—felt more performative than principled. In a party fractured by legacy and ambition, every outrage becomes an audition. Sule’s stance may be rooted in ethics, but it also echoes a strategic whisper: If Jagtap exits, let him enter elsewhere. In Maharashtra’s fluid political theatre, even reprimands carry recruitment codes. And as Sharad Pawar’s loyalists drift, the new leadership must balance ideology with optics. After all, in politics as in Diwali, timing is everything—and every spark is either a scandal or a signal.
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The Invitation That Forgot Half the Room ! When Taliban foreign minister Amir Khan Muttaqi claimed that the absence of women journalists at his Delhi press meet was a “technical issue,” the irony practically wrote itself. A regime globally condemned for erasing women from public life now blames a spreadsheet glitch for excluding them from a press conference. The follow-up event—suddenly inclusive—felt less like reform and more like damage control. If the Taliban’s diplomacy hinges on selective visibility, India’s media must not play along. Inclusion isn’t a logistical oversight—it’s a political statement. And when the world’s most repressive regime offers excuses, it’s not the microphone that needs adjusting. It’s the conscience of those who still lend it one.
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