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Censorship of india is certainly a healthy one..still better than those of China and Korea's.
Nope. Censorship in India is shockingly appalling and regressive. It is an embarrassment to a nation that is one of the world's fastest growing economy and having such an emphasis on education.
Movies like Girl With Dragon Tattoo, Fifty Shades of Grey get banned. Words like "virgin" and "lesbian" are objected to as obscene.
That is just mass media censorship. Government deleting critical FB groups or politicians forcing social media to clamp down on free speech is rapidly sliding down to China levels. Teens were arrested for saying they were glad Bal Thackeray passed away. Shiv Sena forced IF to delete anti-Thackeray threads. Congress govt clamped down on several anti-Sonia pages and groups.
No.Idealism has always failed realism.Flawlessness in beauty and society is impossible to achieve.
It is not about achieving perfection. You have to aim high for marginal accomplishments. Seeking marginal growths leads to zero accomplishments.
It's high time we stop comparing India with others.Each society is different.
There is nothing wrong with benchmarking. Benchmarking against a successful model is not the same as comparison.
I agree you can't compare societies like apples to apples. That is why it irks me to know end when criticism about India is countered with "we are better than middle east" or "it happens in XYZ too"
What do you mean by 'reasonably successful'? It's ridiculous to give credits of a nation's falling crime rate to its liberal censor/certification board.
Correlation and causation work in both ways. Censorship either has an effect on crime rate in both direction or has no effect.
Personally, I do not believe in causation between censorship and crime. Crime depends on society. The prevailing attitudes and beliefs in society. Gun violence in USA has been linked to video games, gun control laws etc. But teens in other nations like Japan and Germany have been shown to be exposed to more violent video games. Switzerland has the most lax gun control laws in the world. Yet none of these nations suffer gun violence. Similarly, the highest rates of teen pregnancy and STDs are found in school districts that endorse abstinence only education. While nations like France with the most liberal approaches have the lowest rates.
The key to solving any social problem is not in censorship but founded in education.
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