{"id":21569,"date":"2017-07-12T18:21:09","date_gmt":"2017-07-12T12:51:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/?p=21569"},"modified":"2017-07-12T18:25:21","modified_gmt":"2017-07-12T12:55:21","slug":"cbfc-asks-director-mute-gujarat-cow-hindutva-view-india-amartya-sen-documentary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/art-and-culture-news\/cbfc-asks-director-mute-gujarat-cow-hindutva-view-india-amartya-sen-documentary\/","title":{"rendered":"CBFC asks director to mute \u2018Gujarat\u2019, \u2018cow\u2019, \u2018Hindutva View of India\u2019 in Amartya Sen documentary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Suman Ghosh\u2019s documentary \u2018The Argumentative Indian\u2019 featuring Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen will not be released in Kolkata after Ghosh refused to follow the Central Board of Film Certification\u2019s order to mute words such as \u2018Gujarat\u2019, \u2018cow\u2019, \u2018Hindutva view of India\u2019 and \u2018Hindu <a href=\"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/topic\/india\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">India<\/a>\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>The CBFC\u2019s Kolkata office had informed Ghosh that he will be given a U\/A certificate only after he drops these words.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe attitude of the censor board just underlines the relevance of the documentary in which Sen highlights the growing intolerance in India. Such scrutiny of any criticism of the government in a democratic country is shocking. There is no way I would agree to beep or mute or change anything that one of the greatest minds of our times has said in the documentary,\u201d Ghosh told The Telegraph on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Sen, who is presently in Santiniketan in Birbhum district, has refused to comment on the controversy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSince I am the subject of this documentary film, I should not pass any comment. It is the director, or other people, who can react. I should not speak on this matter,\u201d he told a Bengali television channel.<\/p>\n<p>The documentary which explores the life and work of Amartya Sen has been shot in two parts in 2002 and 2017. Other than Professor Sen, eminent historian from Harvard University Sugata Bose and Cornell University Professor of Economics Kaushik Basu were interviewed in the documentary.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Suman Ghosh\u2019s documentary \u2018The Argumentative Indian\u2019 featuring Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen will not be released in Kolkata after Ghosh refused to follow the Central Board of Film Certification\u2019s order to mute words such as \u2018Gujarat\u2019, \u2018cow\u2019, \u2018Hindutva view of India\u2019 and \u2018Hindu India\u2019. The CBFC\u2019s Kolkata office had informed Ghosh that he will be given [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":21590,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1503],"tags":[12427,12426,12425,12424,42,12428],"yst_prominent_words":[12421,12419,8222,12420,3704,9507,12422,7138,6316],"ppma_author":[140543],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/d2r2ijn7njrktv.cloudfront.net\/apnlive\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Amartya_Sen.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"authors":[{"term_id":140543,"user_id":4,"is_guest":0,"slug":"apnnewsdesk","display_name":"APN Live","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/478eacb893eda88aa6ed8d99b005bf58?s=96&r=g"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21569"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21569\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21569"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=21569"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=21569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- html is corrupted -->