BJP's self-censorship

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has tied itself in knots over the so-called censorship of the internet attempted by Information Technology Minister Kapil Sibal. Sibal was criticised for policing the Net, curtailing freedom of expression and attempting to bring back the “black days of the 1975 emergency”. Then reporters asked the BJP what it had done by attacking artist M F Husain’s exhibition of paintings and preventing him from depicting gods and goddesses without clothes. Besides, wasn’t some censorship good? What if the pictures of semi-clothed gods and goddesses were displayed all over the Net? An MP said the question was akin to asking if he had beaten his wife yesterday.