''''1968: Key Events'''

* The All-India Co-ordination Committee of Communist Revolutionaries, the precursor of the CPI(ML), becomes the focus of the extra- parliamentary Left. 

* The first Indian Triennale of International Art, organised by the Lalit Kala Akademi.

* The G. D. Khosla Committee Report on Film Censorship criticises the censorship guidelines: ‘If they are followed rigidly, not a single film, Indian or Western, is likely to be certified. ’ 

* [[Abbas]]’s independent short, [[Char Shaher Ek Kahani]], made in the context of the Khosla Committee’s investigations, sparks a major censorship controversy by suggesting that censorship violates the constitutional right to free speech. Major reforms are instituted by the Hidaytullah judgment in the Supreme Court. 

* A manifesto for a New Indian Cinema movement is issued by [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mrinal_Sen|Mrinal Sen]] and Arun Kaul, advocating a state-sponsored author- cinema. 

* The state-owned Jyoti-Chitraban studio is inaugurated in Kahilipara, Guwahati, Assam.