| > In India it's not only easy to build political parties and contest elections but also very good chance of winning them… Great! I agree that is a nice quality about India that western countries don't have and should (or may be not?) envy. Perhaps Indian citizenry can use this opportunity to take the corrupt establishment down and prove to the world that it really works better that way! > Giving one instance of 1984 just demonstrates stark biasness/ignorance, in fact it was the pre-private television/internet era. Free speech has taken itself to an extreme level and powerful politicians/celebrities are ridiculed like anything. I agree with you here too. But only that it's your ignorance and your bias (being an Indian) in the first place. Free speech is not about ridiculing/insulting people at all. It's about the ability to criticize and emphasize opposing views without fear of retribution. That's mostly it at an operational level. > You seem to have zero understanding about Modi and in fact it's due to that "free speech", that perception of yours have been created. I call it bullshit. 3000 innocent people were massacred and you call it propaganda? If it wasn't Modi (or person X) who according to you should be held responsible for the needless bloodshed? Do you have a different bunch of individuals who you think did it and not Modi/other jokers? And that will you be able to put forward enough evidence and witnesses to prove the guilt of such individuals in place of the said person X who the media wrote about? If not, it's bullshit that you're selling here. > The India you might have lived has changed a lot, it’s more open, more daring and more “democratic” than ever before! I'm glad you feel that way but I don't know what you mean by more "democratic" (in scare quotes) than ever before? It somehow still sounds like some people are more equal than others. |