[Reader-list] A perspective on censorship and the co-option of women

[Ujwala Samarth]

 * <http://www.indianexpress.com/columnist/krishna_kumar/>**Dare to be
prissy* *

--- Krishna Kumar, Indian Express May 06 2011:

**"The appointment of Leela Samson as the chief of the Central Board of Film
Certification marks an opportunity for Indian society to engage with a
medium on which it has lost all control. Obviously, she faces a formidable
task. As an artist and a thinker of aesthetics, she is deeply aware of
cinema’s paralysing effect on our collective conscience and will. While the
financial and political clout of the film industry has grown over the recent
decades, the moral authority of the censor board has diminished. The new
urban elites find any form of censorship an encroachment on their right to
be entertained. Powered by growing wealth, they have developed a devouring
appetite for entertainment. Their victims — who serve as means of
entertainment — must shed all hesitation when they are devoured. The victim
is supposed to enjoy the opportunity to give pleasure to the master. In
order to understand this remarkable arrangement, notice how gender relations
are encrypted in the prevailing concept of entertainment, especially cinema.
"

*Read the rest here:

http://www.indianexpress.com/news/dare-to-be-prissy/786648/1

-- 
Ujwala Samarth
(Programme Coordinator, Open Space)

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