The Freedom of Free Speech in India

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??