{"id":3956,"date":"2010-03-19T16:27:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-19T10:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.indiauncut.com\/?p=3647"},"modified":"2010-03-19T16:27:00","modified_gmt":"2010-03-19T10:57:00","slug":"in-india-adults-arent-adults","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indiauncut.com\/in-india-adults-arent-adults\/","title":{"rendered":"In India, Adults aren\u2019t Adults"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My friend Rahul Bhatia has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openthemagazine.com\/article\/art-culture\/love-sex-aur-censor\" title=\"Love, Sex Aur Censor\">a fine story<\/a> in <i>Open<\/i> about Dibakar Banerjee&#8217;s experience with the censor board during the evaluation of <i>Love, Sex aur Dhokha<\/i>. Not that there&#8217;s anything new about censorship in India, but Dibakar wanted an &#8216;A&#8217; certificate for his film, and <i>still<\/i> had to make cuts and compromises. Why do adults need to be protected from sex and bad language? How effing condescending is that? Disgraceful.<\/p>\n<p>Thank goodness I&#8217;ve chosen to be a novelist. Imagine if a committee had told me to cut the orgasm from <i>MFS<\/i>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My friend Rahul Bhatia has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openthemagazine.com\/article\/art-culture\/love-sex-aur-censor\" title=\"Love, Sex Aur Censor\">a fine story<\/a> in <i>Open<\/i> about Dibakar Banerjee&#8217;s experience with the censor board during the evaluation of <i>Love, Sex aur Dhokha<\/i>. Not that there&#8217;s anything new about censorship in India, but Dibakar wanted an &#8216;A&#8217; certificate for his film, and <i>still<\/i> had to make cuts and compromises. Why do adults need to be protected from sex and bad language? How effing condescending is that? Disgraceful.<\/p>\n<p>Thank goodness I&#8217;ve chosen to be a novelist. Imagine if a committee had told me to cut the orgasm from <i>MFS<\/i>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,9,3,17],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>In India, Adults aren\u2019t Adults - India Uncut<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/indiauncut.com\/in-india-adults-arent-adults\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"In India, Adults aren\u2019t Adults - India Uncut\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"My friend Rahul Bhatia has a fine story in Open about Dibakar Banerjee&#8217;s experience with the censor board during the evaluation of Love, Sex aur Dhokha. 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