Kapil Sibal is right, but....

Kapil Sibal is right. Yup! A few weeks back, his idea of internet censorship did receive some flak from many netizens, including me. But, after having seen a few things on Facebook and the likes, I have realised that Sibal was afterall, right! Now, do read on. Don’t stop reading just here. You will see my point and of you don’t, screw you! Ha ha! Kidding! Read on.

Now, if we really do look at the situation, we would realize that India is a precariously secular nation. Precarious being the keyword! It’s shaky, almost a pseudo but just not. It reminds me of French movie I saw called ‘Wages of Fear’, where some men are supposed to take truckloads of unstable nitro-glycerin across some mountainous, bad shaped roads. A single shake and KABOOM! We are pretty much in the same situation. Everyone’s touchy about their beliefs, religion and what not!

And in such a silly, yet un-ignorable state-of-affairs one random dumbass posts something very intimidating on a social networking portal. On Christmas, some smartass posts some shit about Christ not being a ‘lord’ and similar stuff. Also, some wise-crack makes light of many such religious issues! Yes, I have read ‘Templar Revelations’ too, but keep the intellectuality on such issues right up your derriere! This is not the west, where one can get away with a spoof on some God and laugh it off!

Turning Facebook into a religious propaganda platform is not a good idea! In India, people get offended by the slightest! Believe in your beliefs. Stay true to your religion. But don’t spam it on everyone’s walls! Claiming your religion is the best doesn’t lead you anywhere. It just spawns pointless ‘Hate’ groups. The idea of democracy which the internet seems to uphold, get’s brutally fucked. The freedom of speech? Agreed. To retort to that, there is this line in this movie called ‘Garam Hawaa’, which is a movie by M. S. Sathyu, based on an unpublished Urdu short story by Ismat Chughtai. The movie is about India, post-independence. There is an amazing line, where some guy says ‘Sab log Azaadi ka apna apna matlab nikaal rahe hain’ (Everyone is interpreting freedom in their own way).

‘Ignore’ or ‘Block’ is what I would be asked to do. But not everyone would turn away! Hence, Sibal was actually right! Censorship should help.
But- and this is a Biiiiiiiiiiiiiiiigggg BUT- here is the thing Mr.Sibal. We don’t trust you. We are a generation fed on Hollywood movies that believes, that the Government Lies. ‘1984’ is our bible! Maybe not everyone’s read 1984, but still ‘We cannot trust you’! We cannot trust you with anything. In the name of censorship, you could kill our voice! I mean, many times, I want to say shit about YOU and the Government you are a part of! And you could very well strangle us!

There is no sense of unity that you Government give us. The only good thing is that you give us a common enemy. You. And hence, we are united. It’s a choice between being responsible with our voice and losing it. Hard choice? I
f it is, then guys we are,
Hence Screwed!