It has come in papers that India is in a dilemma whether to attend the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony at Oslo as China has categorically said that there will be consequence if any nation attend that function. All those who has commented that India should attend the function. The reason is mostly that China is our enemy and we need not pay any attention to it. Some are worried about the human rights problem there. There is no freedom of speech or expression there. If anyone write in the comments columns as they do here before he can say Mao Tse Tung the Chinese police will be knocking at his or her door. Here nothing of that sort will happen. Very good. I should be very much concerned if I am in China as I will not be able to write like this. So too so many of those who writes comment. The important question is how many are there who wants to express themselves?
The answer is they are just minuscule percentage of the total population. The silent majority are worried about making both ends meet. For them the freedom from hunger is the primary requirement and not expressing themselves. The maid who is sweeping the floor was telling that she has lost work in another house and get another in its place. She has two boys, one in school and another in college. She is certainly bother about freedom of speech. A dog died in our gutter below the stone slabs covering it. the stench was unbearable. One boy of ten volunteered to take it out. Why because he wanted the few bucks he expects will be paid. The construction workers who work from 9am to 6pm in the hot sun is hardly bothered whether he or she can express himself or herself. Only when one's belly is sufficiently filled one think of other things. One can write a best seller 'Not by Bread Alone' when his belly is full. China has managed to see that there are no empty bellies or if it is there it is very very few. So that is more important. Let Liu or anyone express themselves but what matters is that of the common man.
The Western media has a paranoid fixation of hatred towards China. They will blow up only the negative points like poisonous toothpastes or lead painted toys. US has stopped some imports from China. But they have stopped from other countries also which are more than that from China.
I have known directly or indirectly who have been in China and no one has been complaining. This is just Western propaganda.
And what our freedom of speech gives us. We have been freely complain about the corruption. Has it achieved anything? I don't anything. About what all scams we are talking and it goes on as usual. In China even without this freedom of expression the scamsters and corrupt are executed. Has anything happened here?
And our constitution gives us the freedom of speech. IPC takes it back. The restrictions are so many that our freedom of speech is limited to talking about whether and such innocuous subjects. It should not hurt the sensitivity of religious sentiments, not provoke violence, not cause law and order problem and all. I am repeating what I have told. Somebody wanted to stage a play based on the book 'The Last Temptation of Christ' which was readily banned as some Christian association objected to it. Salman Rushdie's 'Satanic Verses' was banned because it touched the sensitivity of Muslims. Hussein's Sarswaty had a premature death because Hindu sentiments were aroused. The only concession is that one can criticise the government but need not expect any results.
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