Kingdom: Sikkim’s merger with India

Re:Kingdom: Sikkim’s merger with India by nashashmi on Tuesday January 05, 2021 @07:44PM (#25653423)

I had read on Wikipedia that Sikkim was annexed due to it being a failed state. This article stating that it was conquered like Tibet is an eye opener. And one I want to doubt.

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Re:Kingdom: Sikkim’s merger with India by mangamadaiyan on Wednesday January 06, 2021 @01:45AM (#25655223)

Not for nothing that Satyajit Ray's "Sikkim" was (still is?) banned.

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Re:Kingdom: Sikkim’s merger with India by thunderbong on Wednesday January 06, 2021 @02:39AM (#25655466)

Thanks. Didn't know about this film. The ban was lifted in 2010.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sikkim_(film)

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Re:Kingdom: Sikkim’s merger with India by saagarjha on Wednesday January 06, 2021 @04:01AM (#25655907)

> Censorship

> This section is empty. You can help by adding to it. (December 2018)

If this isn't irony, I don't know what is…

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Re:Kingdom: Sikkim’s merger with India by magnusmundus on Wednesday January 06, 2021 @05:12AM (#25656302)

The next sentence states it was banned again after two months.

> In November 2010 [...] received an injunction from the court of Sikkim again banning the film.

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Re:Kingdom: Sikkim’s merger with India by thunderbong on Wednesday January 06, 2021 @05:39AM (#25656447)

Missed that somehow. Available on Youtube in India however -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWe067r5X-s

Also, having now watched the whole film, I couldn't quite fathom why it was banned in the first place!

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Re:Kingdom: Sikkim’s merger with India by mangamadaiyan on Wednesday January 06, 2021 @09:00AM (#25657761)

Apocryphally, for two diametrically opposite reasons - one, for showing that poverty existed in Sikkim, and two, for showcasing pre-annexation Sikkim as a "nice place". All the preceding is hearsay, anyway!

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