Navalkar's double standards questioned by theatrefolk
Now that Maharashtra’s crusading minister for cultural affairs, Pramod Navalkar, has managed to kickstart the slumbering, three-year-old Stage Performances Scrutiny Board into high drive, Mumbai’s musicians and theatrefolk are an angry and disgruntled lot. While Navalkar says his mission is to clamp down on vulgarity and derogatory references to national and religious figures in stage acts, the performers accuse him of double standards.

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