Indian Filmmakers Feel Sting of Censorship

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Several documentaries that investigate the horrors of the brutal bloodshed
that lasted for weeks in Gujarat in 2002 have been rejected by the film
festival's organizers, banned by India's censorship board or faced threats
from Hindu extremist groups. Filmmakers claim that such instances raise
important questions about freedom of expression and signal a growing
intolerance in Indian democracy. They say their films about Gujarat are
secular weapons in a fight against the rise of Hindu nationalism in
mainstream Indian politics and national discourse in the past decade.

Source:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A23817-2004Jan16.html