(Photo Courtesy: Hindustan Times) Freedom of Speech. It’s so interesting that the once most celebrated human right is now the most controversial one. Sometimes you just get appalled by the sheer stupidity that surrounds you that you don’t even have words to describe them. And this results in immense frustration and all you can do is infuriate yourself by observing what’s happening around. Most of our sentiments were hurt when AVBP goons took over the streets of Delhi University, and as protectors of Indian culture and nationalism, started exercising their masculinity by thrashing and molesting people. As if freedom of speech is conditional to ideas and views of what a group sitting at the pedestal believes in. If they don’t like what you are doing, they will make sure you are proved wrong and brought to justice by breaking every law possible. Morality of course has no place here. Oh! That sounds like the patriarchal and Brahmanical structure that India has been battling fo...

Student community of the Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai also voiced their opinion on the issue.   It must have been in class sixth or seventh when I first came to know what ‘Right to Freedom of Expression’ is. Our civics teacher, in very simple language, explained to us that India being a democracy, guaranteed its citizens the right to express their opinion and that no one could curb it. It’s been ten years now, and here at a post graduate level, we are still being taught what this ‘right of expressing’ really is. Courtesy: The Financial Express However, there was one thing that was never taught to us, never; how do we respect someone else’s opinion?  Most of this faasad , that we see today is primarily because we have lost the ability of respecting someone else’s opinion and always happen to be in the race of imposing ours on someone else.  The situation within the higher academic institutions of the country isn’t really at the best o...