The guarantee of free speech in India is very difficult to
understand as it’s not in our hands but in the hands of Politicians & some
particular groups who itself makes the policies and later makes the fun of
it. We are living in the same country
which takes pride in being the “world’s largest democracy.” But I have been
wondering for quite some time – how democratic is India?
As per our Indian
constitution grants freedom to every
citizen of India to raise the questions or to speaks out but sometime these
choices back fire to us by same politicians and their political groups who
themselves claims as a messiah of the citizens.
If a so called nationalistic party like Congress who was in
the power of this country for approx 60 years but it is very unfortunate that
Congress is up to arms against Filmmaker “Madhur Bhandarkar” movie called “Indu Sarkar” which
is going to be released this week on 28th July as the movie is based on the
21-month Emergency between 1975 and 1977 imposed by then Prime Minister Indira
Gandhi, where many of our biggest leaders had to go to jail, people was struck
in their homes, press was completely
banned to air or published anything related to govt policies & their
actions.
Apart recently a comedy group All India Bakchod (AIB) was
threatened on social media by some political affiliated groups for posting a
picture of Prime Minister Narendra Modi with a snapchat dog filter. These are
the few examples that show how in India some political parties and their
affiliated groups are trying to impose ban in the citizens’ choice of
speeches/freedom and not being allowed to raise any such questions against
their own leader’s failure.
This should mean that people can’t protest what they don’t
like, Of course they can. It is their democratic right, but what we must watch
or make mimicry of someone is it also a choice of our own way of freedom as we
are living in the 21st century and we are understandable enough to take our choices
of free speech.
Now the time has come to move a step forward and raise the
questions against those who try to stop our freedom of choices, is that
possible in India??
