How India's blocking of a film exposing real-life police abuses backfired

NPR News Wednesday 19 August 2026, 10:02 UTC By Omkar Khandekar 1 min read

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When Indian authorities scrubbed the biopic of activist Jaswant Singh Khalra, local villagers and activists turned its censorship into a grassroots movement.

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