Roswitha wonders whether the media and the dominant class would’ve woken up if the film hadn’t been banned:

Once more unto the breach. I’m not sure what we’ve done to deserve the media we have, but since have them we do, I’m going to wonder when they’re going to stop covering all manifestations of identity politics as an ‘us v/ them’ thing and start treating these things with both the seriousness and the sensitivity they deserve. Much of the coverage of the Aaja Nachle fracas [the film banned in two states because of a casteist line of lyrics in the title song] has decried the heavy-handedness of protesting forces, taken a steady stance in the ‘freedom of expression’ picket lines, decried the vote-bank politics that are without a doubt at the bottom of the issue, and generally made a lot of urbane, genteel noise. Today’s Times of India and all its attendant glossy supplements are filled with opinions from people who have no idea what the fuss is about and have no notion of why the lines that were called into question were offensive at all.