The Big [Censored] Theory

We have this kind of censorship in India as well, even the in weirdly innocous places. In James Bond movies, and I think Gone Girl as well, scenes were by zooming into character's faces or just straight cuts.

This is probably the only reason I maintain a US iTunes accounts (used to have to buy gift cards from sketchy sites online to keep this going, but I recently discovered that my Indian Amex card works fine with a US address).

Also trivia for those who are wondering how cuts are made, at least for cinema content: all video and audio assets are usually sent to theatres in full, but there's an XML file called the CPL (composition playlist) that specifies which file is played from which to which frame / timestamp in what sequence. Pure cuts or audio censorship can be handled by just adding an entry to skip the relevant frames or timestamp, or by specifying a censor beep as the audio track for a particular time range.

https://cinepedia.com/packaging/composition/

Given the racist protrayal of Indian American Raj Kuthrapalli, I am of the opinion Indians are magnanimous in allowing this show to be aired there.

I mean, it's comedy, it's obviously not hateful.

The whole point was that all the main characters were stereotypical nerds and each displayed a different type social difficulty. I mean Sheldon was obviously supposed to be somewhere on the autistic spectrum, how is that not ableist or whatever?

It was also apart of his character arc! If you watch the show, Raj eventually overcomes his fear of talking to women and ends up dating multiple women (sometimes at the same time) later in the show.

There are a ton of jewish stereotypes present in the show as well, but they are hilarious, and > 50% of the cast is jewish (as well as almost all of the producers AND the director), and obviously they were not offended and CHOSE to write and direct the show that way. My point being, it's just comedy and if you actually watch the whole thing, it has a good message.