If you live on the West Coast of India you would have heard by now. The gigantic, grotesque monster - Banzilla has reared its ugly head once again. Stomping through India’s cable TV landscape making people run helter-skelter in panic. Growling “No Adult Content” and “Movie Channel Ban” he is once again here to remind us all that the “explosive” growth in the entertainment industry we all talk about is built on shaky foundations. He is chasing down Cable Operators and shutting down Movie channels, till they get Indian Censor Board Certification for their content. The cable operators are crying foul and say that it’s the Broadcasters who are to be penalized as they are at fault.

We have to fight Banzilla and send him back into his deep watery home for he is threatening our very future as a society and as a nation. Some months ago the Government asked all Music Television Channels to run rolling text on-air, apologizing for showing lewd programming. It was akin to asking a rogue student to write, “I will not cheat in exam” 500 times on a blackboard. Come on, can we not have a better policy in place to control what is shown at what time of the day on which channels. It is not rocket science. It happens all over the world and it can happen here too.