‘Ban’ is the new trend Ban Republic Things India has banned

Beef ban in Maharashtra Ban on obscene words in Bollywood Delhi gang rape documentary Screening of Fifty Shades Of Grey in Indian theatres Release of the film Dirty Politics in Bihar AIB Roast Foreigners in Parties Women in Dance Bars Uber ban in Delhi Xiaomi ban in India Beep out 'Bombay‘ Ban restricts our thoughts

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What’s in here?

'Ban' seems to be the new

buzzword for the Government of India

From beef to documentaries to movies, the government is leaving no stone unturned to uphold 'the dignity of India'

‘Ban’ is the new trend

India is caught in the throes of the big ban theory and is heading towards becoming a ban republic

Everything is off limits and can be banned

You name it, India has banned it

Be it the right to love a same sex man or a woman, wearing a bikini because you would like to soak in some sun while sitting on a beach in Goa or girls dancing at bars or informing the crowd what’s the mindset of a rapist

Ban Republic

Things India has banned

Beef in Maharashtra

Obscene words in Bollywood

Delhi gang rape documentary

Xiaomi

Foreigners in Parties

Ban on

AIB Roast

Women in dance barsUber

Screening of Fifty Shades of Grey and release of Dirty politics in Bihar

According to the Maharashtra

government, anyone caught possessing, selling or eating red meat will land in trouble

Beef, the popular red meat, was banned on March 3 in Maharashtra

President gave his assent to the Maharashtra Animal Preservation (Amendment) Bill

Under the new law, anyone found to be selling beef or in possession of it can be jailed for five years and fined Rs 10,000.

Beef ban in Maharashtra

Central Board of Film Certification had failed in its attempt to push through a list of 28 banned swear words

They learned that they could still contribute to the banning by asking the makers of Dum Laga Ke Haisha to mute the word “lesbian”

Ensuring that four other words – Ghanta, haramipana, haram ke pille and haramkhor –would also not be heard by the audiences

Ban on obscene words in Bollywood

Leslee Udwin's documentary "India's Daughter" which features the mindset of the Delhi gangrape accused Mukesh Singh has been banned by the government

Home Minister Rajnath Singh said documentary would not be aired in India

He accused its makers of violating "permission conditions" by not showing the complete unedited footage to the jail officials

Delhi gangrapedocumentary

Fifty Shades of Grey has been banned for

screening in Indian cinemas

The board had objected to some of the film's dialogue, even after the studio Universal Pictures made voluntary edits to the film to tone down its sex scenes and removed all nudity

The studio still hasn't got a written order form the Censor Board

But biggest irony is that accessing porn is allowed

Screening of Fifty Shades Of Grey in Indian theatres

The Patna High Court

had banned the release of the film in Bihar over alleged objectionable scenes in the film

The court had to lift the ban when the producer and the director of the film submitted a written petition, saying that the film had been passed by the CBFC without a cut

Release of the film Dirty Politics in Bihar

The show, which was attended by 4000 people and

uploaded on YouTube, went viral

But was banned by the authorities, as it was reportedly too much and too vulgar for Indian audience

AIB Roast

The Karnataka government has put a ban on parties

in Karnataka with foreign invitees unless it's under police supervision

Foreigners in Parties

Will a ban on woman dance bars really help them keep safe?

According to Supreme Court a complete ban on bar dancers has dropped down cases of crimes against women

Women in Dance Bars

Uber resumes operations in Delhi post 1.5 months ban

It was banned due to rape of a passenger by a driver on its network

Uber cabs has allegedly emailed the victim announcing that they are back in operation with 25% discount

Uber ban in Delhi

The Delhi High Court permitted Chinese mobile phone maker Xiaomito sell and import Qualcomm chipset based handsets till January 8

The High Court on December 8 restrained Xiaomi as well as online e-commerce site Flipkart from selling in India

Xiaomi ban in India

Central Board of Film Certification has beeped out the word “Bombay” from the lyrics of Mihir Joshi’s song from the album ‘Mumbai Blues’

The certificate was issued on December 5, 2014, under the chairmanship of Leela Samson

Beep out 'Bombay'

Instead of focusing majorly on bans the government

should concentrate on other soci-economic issues that India is facing and take measures to improve the status of our country

We live with notions of democracy and free will in our mind but with all these bans happening it has restricted our actions and our thoughts

Ban restricts our thoughts

This is the kalyug that our grandparents used to

talk about

India is on a ban-everything spree

Seeing the nature of things that are banned and more importantly things that aren’t there is serious question here whether India is actually a democratic country or not

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