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

Published by NPR World By Omkar Khandekar · 19 August 2026 at 13:02
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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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