Take up the cudgels to stand by your rights!

There's always a debacle over the right vs wrong in Indian constituency. This time it all started with the arrest of 2 girls for crticising Maharashtra bandh on demise of Bala Saheb Thackeray. We say that we are the only democratic country in this world. But where does the democracy lies... If one doesn't has the right to express his or her views ? 
And punishing someone over expression of thoughts is it right? This has not been seen for the first time in India. Few months ago  Kolkata's professor Ambikesh Mahapatra was also put behind bars for hurting Bengal's Mamata Didi's emotions by forwarding her cartoon through e-mail. 

 At times I wonder if expression of thought is such a crime then we should have hanged all those corrupt netas of our country whose mindsets never match with the mango people of this society as the 'aam aadmi' hardly ever agrees with their thoughts. If these so called 'netas' can have the  right to put innocent behind bars over an expression of thought...then why not the the mango people should posses such rights.

I believe I have heard more number of stories of suppression of civilians views and thoughts in Taliban rather than in any other country. And now I feel that we are somehow following the same footsteps.

Right to expression of thoughts is something that is being taught in this country from the very beginning of the education of a child. Then why those two girls were put behind bars for expressing their minds on a social networking site.

Just yesterday I read an article about a 21-yr-old young lawyer Shreya Singhal, who filed a public interest litigation in the Supreme Court challanging the constitutional validity of section 66A of the Information technology Act. She has questioned the SC to re-evaluate the section curtailing the freedom to express one's thought on social networking sites.
I completely agree with lawyer's argument that if expressing thoughts on television doesn't come under any crime then how can expressing thoughts on a social networking site is a crime. 

 Even though the Maharashtra police has decided to drop charges against Shaheen Dhada and her friend Renu Srinivasan, but what about the sufferings these girls had to undergo? How far this act of Shiv Sena can be called as politically expedient? 

I guess this is the time when the youth of India needs to take up the cudgels to stand by its freedom.  Just criticizing a bandh according to me is not a crime. Everyone respects the emotions and feelings attached to the demise of Bala Saheb Thackeray. But one should understand the consequences a bandh can lead to other people's lives. There have been many people who would have fallen sick or needed an immediate medical attention on that day too...but were they given the medical attention on time? Definitely not, showing love for someone is never bad...but politician should not forget the consequences the normal people suffer because of their actions.

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