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We live in a time when our "Opinions qualify as Crimes"
Being a mass communication student myself, when the rumors came of social media getting banned in India, I got to thinking that how much of freedom of speech do we actually really have here. Most of the things get censored, journalist getting attacked, arrested or detained for just doing their jobs. There are the journalists who are killed for doing their job. Reporters Without Borders documented nine journalists killed in India in 2015, five while doing their job. "Their deaths confirm India’s position as Asia’s deadliest country for media personnel, ahead of both Pakistan and Afghanistan."
The Indian government has used these laws to ban books, such as Salman Rushdie’s novel The Satanic Verses, and movies, such as India’s Daughter, a 2015 documentary film made by Leslee Udwin for the BBC on the 2012 gang rape of a Delhi college student. Social media here was the only platform where people could truly express their thoughts with minimal amount of fear in their mind ( won't say completely no fear because people here do get into trouble for expressing their thoughts on social media too).
Is freedom of speech really a true concept here or is it just a cover for what is actually going on behind the covers?
I guess this picture appropriately defines the Concept of Freedom of Speech in our country.
My emotions drove my imagination for this photograph.
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