An award in the translation category was declared to a former Politburo member of the banned Communist Party of India (Maoist), Kobad Gandhi's book 'Fractured Freedom'. The government has now withdrawn the award and scrapped the committee that recommended the book.
Over a hundred little known filmmakers, who very few people have heard of, have issued a joint statement asking people to vote the BJP out of power. Coming under the banner of 'Save Democracy', the artists claim that they have come together "to protect the democracy of the country."