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It's her, did you watch the video btw?
Error, really, is it ?
Because there are no scope for error on the Right, its all intolerance, saffron terror and award wapsi. Here a Professor, winner of a national award- Ramanujan award, who is armed with every word of golwalkar, even a 100 year old essay that condones the british raj, cannot have an escape route of "just a factual error". Would you concede such "error", if there was a small generalization on JNU or jadavpur....
lets not conflate the issue, I don't care what students say, it is obvious that students will chant freedom from India, when the teacher here on the campus is saying 40% of India is under occupation and Kashmir illegally occupied. I do something earlier suggested to me : Hang my head in shame.
You got me! I did not watch the video but rather guessed on it's content based on the conversation flow in this thread. Sadly my guess wasn't off the mark at all. These kind of misrepresentation turns my stomach but it doesn't worry me because I am pretty much secure in my belief of sanctity of Indian cause and I am sure 99% of Indians are too.
My friend don't be so despondent. We Indians are too sensitive a bunch, we need to have thicker skins. Hell there are more secessionists in the rust belts of Michigan than in mainland India.
Freedom of speech is not a problem. But intentionaly or unintentionaly they are potentialy creating hundreds of Arundhati Roy s. They could use same freedom of speech in valley and do other way around. And Kashmiri Pandits are not even given space to speak.
This issue is hanging since decades. And since it is a major cause of enmity between India and Pakistan, Americans and Brits will not let it solve anytime soon. They will never let us have final war, nor any peaceful solution. They like it hanging. They can easily flame religious violence if it ever reaches a resolution.
But since unlike Pakistan, Indian government is happy with status quo, it needs unrest from within. Not saying that these institutes are being funded, but sometimes 'order from top' does the job. So we need to crackdown the top. Or just let it happen, its just freedom of speech.
Ms Roy for all her complaints should atleast appreciate the fact that she is not behind bars and is allowed to indulge in her cause. In a less tolerant society her lifespan would have been measured in minutes. This is the freedom of speech I respect and try to advocate - Equally for Arundhati Roys and Yogi Adityanaths.
I agree with your assertion that it should go both ways but sadly majority rights makes for bad optics.