We, the prickly people: Why has Kangana's 'Emergency' run into trouble?

You can still put words in Indira Gandhi's mouth and get away with it. But if you garnish your pretence of fact with so much fiction, you might end up messing with Bhindranwale

Rest assured, this isn’t another piece of writing on Anubhav Sinha’s Netflix series, IC-814: The Kandahar Hijack. Rather, it serves to spark this larger argument on the insurmountable and often physically dangerous challenge of creating any work of art, literature, movie, or television series drawing from any chapter or personalities of our contemporary history.

The IC-814 controversy has erupted in the same week that the release of Kangana Ranaut’s Emergency has been withheld.

Yet another contemporary history-themed movie, Farhan Akhtar’s 120 Bahadur, has begun its pre-release promotions. This film portrays the heroic last battle of the storied