07-20-2007, 06:05 PM
'We are the world's biggest hypocrisy'
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Author Shiv Khera is angry with the Censor Board for "irrational and irrelevant" cuts in his documentary film, inspired by the AIIMS anti-quota stir
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<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Khera has been addressing students all across and he says even those belonging to backward classes are not in favour of this reservation. "The government is hell-bent on sowing the seeds of another partition. And all for votes. Now thereâs in-fighting in these classes too -- that weâre more backward than you! Itâs so ridiculous,'' he asserts.
Kheraâs 29-minute video has been advised three cuts, with the Board asking for proof for two claims made in the film. Talking about this, Khera says, "They want documentary evidence of some of the statements Iâve made. For example, thereâs one that says that in the 1984 riots, thousands of Sikhs got killed. Iâve gone on to ask whether their lives can be compensated with money? The Censor Board wants documentary proof of this! The others are equally ridiculous. This is the level of the people in the Censor Board. Iâm telling you -- weâre not the worldâs biggest democracy, but the worldâs biggest hypocrisy."
Ask him if the recent agitation for scheduled tribe status in Rajasthan has forced the Censor Board to take a rather strict view of the film and he says, "I donât think so. It had nothing to do with the agitation. There are some political appointees on the Board whoâve forced their warped viewpoint. There was only one bureaucrat there who made sense but the others didn't know what they were talking about," adds the exasperated Khera.
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<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Author Shiv Khera is angry with the Censor Board for "irrational and irrelevant" cuts in his documentary film, inspired by the AIIMS anti-quota stir
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<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Khera has been addressing students all across and he says even those belonging to backward classes are not in favour of this reservation. "The government is hell-bent on sowing the seeds of another partition. And all for votes. Now thereâs in-fighting in these classes too -- that weâre more backward than you! Itâs so ridiculous,'' he asserts.
Kheraâs 29-minute video has been advised three cuts, with the Board asking for proof for two claims made in the film. Talking about this, Khera says, "They want documentary evidence of some of the statements Iâve made. For example, thereâs one that says that in the 1984 riots, thousands of Sikhs got killed. Iâve gone on to ask whether their lives can be compensated with money? The Censor Board wants documentary proof of this! The others are equally ridiculous. This is the level of the people in the Censor Board. Iâm telling you -- weâre not the worldâs biggest democracy, but the worldâs biggest hypocrisy."
Ask him if the recent agitation for scheduled tribe status in Rajasthan has forced the Censor Board to take a rather strict view of the film and he says, "I donât think so. It had nothing to do with the agitation. There are some political appointees on the Board whoâve forced their warped viewpoint. There was only one bureaucrat there who made sense but the others didn't know what they were talking about," adds the exasperated Khera.
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