No smoking, please, we are Indians

Fasten your belts, and extinguish your cigarettes. The grisly warnings against puffing a weed, lighting up a Havana or chewing a Banarasi paan, initiated by the Central Board of Film Certification (colloquially known as the Censor Board) two years ago, haven’t amused Woody Allen at all. Last week the world’s most celebrated confectioner of wry comedies withdrew his film, Blue Jasmine, from being released in India.

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