Don'ts And Can'ts: Taboo Nation

• August 2007: Shiv Sena activists ransack Outlook office in Mumbai for allegedly offensive cartoons in Independence Day issue
   
• November 2007: Raj Thackeray re-ignites Maratha chauvinism against North Indians living and residing in Mumbai
   
• May 2008: Skimpily clad cheerleaders of the Indian Premier League targeted by the moral police
   
• June 2008: Loksatta editor Kumar Ketkar's house vandalised over an article that questioned the need to build a Shivaji statue in the Arabian Sea
   
• June 2008: MTV Mumbai office vandalised over a publicity campaign for a reality show that showed a Sikh peeping into a room where a girl is massaging a man
   
• June 2008: Shiv Sena mouthpiece Saamna office attacked for a caricature of Congress man Narayan Rane in female form.

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• October 2007: All news channels airing Tehelka’s Operation Kalank, on the Hindutva brigade’s role in the 2002 riots, banned

   

• December 2007: Taare Zameen Par banned in a Vadodara multiplex because of Aamir Khan's earlier statements in support of the Narmada Bachao Andolan

   

• January 2008: NDTV office attacked in Ahmedabad for conducting an SMS poll with noted painter M.F. Husain as a contender for the Bharat Ratna

   

• June 2008: Police register case against Ashis Nandy for causing enmity among communities through an edit page article in Times of India

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• September 2007: Four journalists of Mid-Day, Delhi, sentenced to four months in prison for a piece that accused a former chief justice of corruption

   

• February 2008: Controversy over A.K. Ramanujan's essay "Three Hundred Ramayanas: Five Examples and Three Thoughts on Translation"

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• August 2007: Punjab government bans printing and publishing of the Guru Granth Sahib, stating that only the SGPC could print the holy Sikh scriptures

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• January 2008: Madhuri Dikshit's comeback movie Aaja Nachle runs into trouble because of certain "caste-demeaning" remarks in the title track

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• November 2007: Protests against CPI (M)'s excesses in Nandigram and the government faces flak for its role in the Rizwan case

   

• November 2007: To divert attention from the above, Bangladeshi writer Taslima Nasreen made a scapegoat and was finally made to leave the country

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• November 2007: An Adivasi woman demanding Scheduled Tribe status as part of a rally stripped by three rioters in Guwahati as youths clicked away on their cellphone cameras

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• July 2008: Church, Muslims, and opposition Congress accuse CPI (M) government of injecting communist ideology in Std VII social science textbook

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• February 2008: Sania Mirza pulls out of Bangalore Open after row on comments on premarital sex, short skirts, and outcry over her allegedly placing her feet near the national flag
   
• March 2008: IT company Sasken ransacked by Kannada activists for a ditty by an employee that allegedly insulted Kannada and Kannadigas

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• August 2007: Newspapers protest over government ban on publication of statements by militants, insurgents groups and "unlawful organisations"

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• March 2008: An exhibition on Aurangzeb at Lalit Kala Akademi in Chennai abruptly shut due to protests over the "poor depiction" of the Mughal emperor

   

• May 2008: Actress Shriya Saran faces ire of Hindu groups for wearing a "provocative" dress in the presence of CM Karunanidhi

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• June 2008: Editor and two journalists of Andhra Jyoti held for an article blaming Nadiga leaders

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• August 2008: Two TV channels and SMS service banned for allegedly inciting communal passions

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• September 2007: Major General V.K. Singh’s house raided by CBI. The retired general, who served with RAW, invited the government’s wrath for his book exposing India’s external intelligence agency.

   

• November 2007: BSP government of Uttar Pradesh accused of facilitating the sale and distribution of Dravidian icon Periyar Ramaswamy's books that allegedly contain "highly objectionable references" to Sita

   

• February 2008: Period film Jodhaa Akbar angers Rajputs in Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, UP, Haryana and Uttaranchal for "historical inaccuracies" about Princess Jodhaa in the period film