64 years, Are we still backward?
By siliconindia   |   Saturday, 13 August 2011, 00:58 IST   |    35 Comments
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Bangalore: It seems nearly impossible to dream of an India that thinks beyond the lines of reservations. At a time of competing liberalism globally, India choose to follow its age-old habit of banning anything that we have selectively termed as sensitive - books and movies, from Salman Rushdie's Satanic Verses to Taslima Nasrin Lajja, to Deepa Mehta's Fire, and of late, Prakash Jha's Aarakshan.
As the nation moves forward in education, development and economic prosperity, the logical thinking part of us is taking a walk back. The freedom of speech and expression is chained here where you do not have the liberty to touch on topics which our politicians feel are "sensitive". We have been scared of radical ideas and we choose to live with the belief that nothing is totally right or wrong.

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