The Story Of Indian Censorship

The year was 1927 and Mohammad Hidayatullah, a young Indian from a literary family, had just been enrolled at Cambridge. He was eager to take in the drama scene, but had a problem. When he was a boy, his father had prohibited him from seeing a play called Nao Tanki. Hidayatullah mused that this may have been because the play was obscene, and decided to write home to seek permission to watch plays in London’s famous West End. His father was taken aback at this strange request. Hidayatullah tells us in his memoirs, “He replied expressing himself completely in favour and showing some surprise that I should ask his permission.”
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