India, Aug. 12 -- Last week, I received a WhatsApp message from the office of Punjab's newly appointed industry minister Sanjeev Arora. It was an appointment letter to the film media committee, one of the many sectoral panels set up by the state government. I couldn't attend the subsequent convocation, but the timing of such an initiative couldn't have been more apt.

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