[icernet] Censors kill creativity

[Arul Selvan]

  Creativity cannot be censored. Television has become a very popular 
medium, with increasing accessibility, and needs to be monitored, 
Government censorship is not acceptable. That doesn't work, as we have 
seen to our cost. Censorship tends to curb creativity-and it is a crime 
to see a beautiful thought or moment, or a work of art hacked to death 
because it is vulgar in someone's view. Responsible programming is the 
answer. Unfortunately, as we are witnessing, that is hardly the case. 
Our television serials are regressive and have pregnant women keeping 
Karvachauth and even glorifying sati. For God's sake, we live in 2003, 
not in the medieval age. But commercial interests rule programming. What 
is the message producers are trying to convey?

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