Reading through Frontline I came through an article that was about how a book ,“Such a long journey” written by Rohinton Mistry, was ridiculed and out casted from the syllabus of BA in Arts because Shiv Sena and its brother organization like Yuva Nirman Sena ,headed by Aditya Thackeray, didn’t approve of it. Well my question is “who gave them the right to take away the freedom of voicing one’s opinions in pubic”. Last time I checked India was a democratic country, the largest democratic country on basis of population, and not a Fascist were people in power can crush the people who speak against them.
Time and again we have seen books and films getting banned because a few people or group in the country are too chauvinist to see every negative reference as an insult and on top of that our government is too afraid to do anything to stop such a nonsense. This is an absolute insult of democracy and the rights that the constitution offers us.
Well it would have been better after all that instead of a democracy we had a communist government. Then we would only have to worry about the government and not about the sensitivity of every tom, dick and harry.
India is a republic, a DEMOCRACY and very secular, atleast claims to be. Have YOU ever applied for a basic course in Pol. Science? If not please do.
ReplyDeleteAlso, try improving on your grammar, Mr. remixworld- "Did you ever applied for a passport?"- and then and only then you might just qualify to comment on somebody's work. But, I'd still say, "Nice try" to keep our hopes high.
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