When Indian authorities scrubbed the biopic of activist Jaswant Singh Khalra, local villagers and activists turned its censorship into a grassroots movement.
<img src='https://npr.brightspotcdn.com/dims3/default/strip/false/crop/4032x3024+0+0/resize/4032x3024!/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F4c%2F91%2F6cd3686d4c8893b07c4035c0279f%2F4.jpg' alt='In the second week of July, hundreds in Bandala village in the Indian state of Punjab attended the screening of Satluj, a film blocked by the Indian government on grounds of '<a href="https://indianexpress.com/article/india/government-panel-wants-ban-on-satluj-to-stay-says-film-whitewashes-terror-10781254/"target="_blank" >national security</a>'.<br>'/><p>When Indian authorities scrubbed the biopic of activist Jaswant Singh Khalra, local villagers and activists turned its censorship into a grassroots movement.</p><p>(Image credit: Omkar Khandekar)</p><img src='https://media.npr.org/include/images/tracking/npr-rss-pixel.png?story=g-s1-138787' />
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