From the editor in chief
India Today Editor in chief writes about the ongoing controversy over Sanjay Leela Bhansali's magnum opus Padmavati, explaining how India has become a republic of "offended sentiments" and the disturbing trends in the country the row exposed.
We behave rather strangely for a country acclaimed as the world's largest democracy. We ban books and films before even reading or seeing them. In October 1988, India became the first country in the world to ban the import of Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses, within nine days of its release in the UK and much before the rest of the world woke up to the perceived slight to
