kolkataa group of intellectuals including some of reputed playwrights recently held a protest meet in front of academy of fine arts in protest against the growing attacks on the intellectuals by the ruling party and the state administration speaking on the occasion intellectuals condemned the trinamool congress run governments deliberate attempts to censor cultural activities in this context they mentioned the recent incident where benu chattopadhyay a playwright was compelled to change the dialogue of the play setubandhan just because it had the words such as ma and mati the incident occurred on january 15 at dinhata in coochbehar shook my confidence as a director and playwright i felt that the censorship was a direct attack on my freedom as a playwright said benu chattopadhyay who was present at the academy of fine arts speaking on the occasion chitra sen said that the recent attacks on the intellectuals across the state was a kind of hooliganism and a rape on culture gora ghosh the general secretary of ganatantrik lekhak o shilpi sangha a platform of the intellectuals appealed all intellectuals and democratic forces in the state to remain alert on such attacks in future pabitra sarkar and chandan sen also spoke at the protest meet