Thursday, 26 March 2015

Freedom of speech !


Hats off to Ms. Shreya Singhal! I remember looking at the photo of the young girls (ms. covering their face when they got arrested for commenting on Bal Thakray's death and the subsequent 'bandh' on FB.... I couldn’t justify the act of the young girls  being arrested and making a big news about it.. The police and media pictured them as they have done a murder!

Everyone around knew well that, it was not a crime the girls did, it was indeed a normal comment any other person like you and me did!    The history repeated when the system arrested university professor for forwarding on cartoon of Mamtaji then it was turn of the cartoonist Aseem Trivedi...

All these were normal comments where a normal person can never find fault with... but such incidents creates a very long block in our minds... many times we feel like expressing our opinions in fb or twitter on many of the injustice and malpractices we come across… but we get scared !  We don’t want to be the next victim in any case..

Tasleema Nasreen wrote openly about the life in Bangladesh and her books are being banned in India.. I read the book and I felt the same is done well with facts, but somehow the system says it’s against the law so the books are being banned!

Freedom of speech is something that will  benefit each one of us...  we are free to express our voice against the injustice or any sensational subjects without any block! We all know well that we need d freedom to express.. Many times we know d law need to be amended but we wanted somebody else to fight for our right!

I should say Ms. Shrya took the  courage to file a complaint against the system.. may be the subject she is learning 'law' give her the knowledge and support... but d question is how many have already learned  and passed  out this law... why only Shreya responded ?  Am sure there would have been obstacles on her way  but the girl was determined to fight against the injustice.. The question of courage comes herein.. There is no doubt Shrya is going to be one if the best lawyer coming up ! One person who would fight for justice!

Again there is going to be flows on d amended law..  bad people who would misuse the subject.. but let’s hope for the best...

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