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Podcast: In Focus by The Hindu
Episode: âGhooskhor Pandatâ case: Can Supreme Courtâs observations help reverse the declining protection for free speech in India?
Description: Recently, the producers of a Netflix movie titled âGhooskhor Pandatâ were taken to court. A PIL had been filed in the Supreme Court, seeking a ban on the movie. The PIL had been filed by a man claiming to be the National Organisation Secretary of the Brahman Samaj of India. His petition argued that the movie portrayed the Brahmin community in a negative light, by âequatingâ bribe-taking with the title âPandatâ. It said it would provoke disharmony, and a law and order problem.
The filmâs producers offered to relinquish the title, and release the movie under a different name. So, the...