On not being allowed to see The Da Vinci Code

Tonight in Hyderabad, as the first rain of the monsoon falls, I thought I'd try and catch what the papers here have dubbed the "Grand Releasing" of the Hanks/Tatou folly down at the old H-bad Multiplex. Unfortunately I can't. The Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh, Mr Reddy (one third of AP MPs are called "Reddy"), from Congress, decided yesterday, by the powers vested in him, that the movie was too offensive to Christians to be screened in his state. The archbishop....