It was in July this year that the Union information & broadcasting ministry, in its self-anointed role as the custodian of morality, put the brakes on the proposed shooting of Indian Summer, a film based on the book of the same name by Alex Von Tunzelmann. The ministry’s objection was that the film, going by the draft script, was not the story of India’s Partition, as claimed by Working Title, the British production house, but more about the romance between India’s first prime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, and Edwina Mountbatten, the last vicerine of the British Raj. It has now come to light that the one-man committee of Gajanan Wakankar, a former ifs officer, assigned the task of vetting the script, took a rather lenient view and even said it was well-written. Wakankar only objected to two scenes, which he said had factual errors (see box)