CAN WE CALL IT FREEDOM?
Note: This was published in October 2020. Since its a contemporary subject just publishing it again. The photograph appeared in today's news paper (Nov 2023) prompted me to write this, and being posted again. Film actress Kangana Ranaut walking through the public place surrounded by Y plus security personnel. Y category is a type of security consisting of 11 persons including one or two commandos or police personnel. Why this security is needed for Kangana, an ordinary woman, to walk through a public place in India? Because she has expressed her opinion in public about the government. She too must have voted for electing the government. Article 19 of the Indian constitution is guarenteeing individual rights and absolute freedom of expression under any circumstances for every citizen of India. Decades after approving the constitution and making it bound to be obeyed by every citizen of India, a state government is unanimously disallowing this constitutional ...