Senior journalist Gauri Lankesh was shot dead. Intolerance has once again showed up its brutal scarface. We live in a country which guarantees freedom of speech and expression. But where do the rights go when you raise your voice against the powerful? Where do the rights go when you start speaking
for the oppressed?
If this is how the intolerants start covering up the voice of India, then I swear that they're never going to see the light of truth for sure. In every civil society or say civilization itself, development or progress has happened only when they started welcoming critizisms and odd opinions.
Shahid Azmi was shot dead few years back and now, its Gauri Lankesh. No need to compare or classify the incidents, yet the similarity lies in the sole fact that in both the cases, the intolerants had tried to seal the mouth of the truth speakers with bullets. Whatever maybe the reason, killing someone for not having the same opinion of one's own- is no more an act of valor, but pure form of terrorism.
Well, why should I scribble on this as long as I live in a world which had poisoned Socrates, crucified Jesus, shot Lincoln and Gandhi dead!? Centuries passed, mammoths are gone, but humans are all the same! However, truth ever triumphs and more the intolerant kills, louder the voices roar and history proves it. And that's all for now. Peace out.
- Rahul Sharma
If this is how the intolerants start covering up the voice of India, then I swear that they're never going to see the light of truth for sure. In every civil society or say civilization itself, development or progress has happened only when they started welcoming critizisms and odd opinions.
Shahid Azmi was shot dead few years back and now, its Gauri Lankesh. No need to compare or classify the incidents, yet the similarity lies in the sole fact that in both the cases, the intolerants had tried to seal the mouth of the truth speakers with bullets. Whatever maybe the reason, killing someone for not having the same opinion of one's own- is no more an act of valor, but pure form of terrorism.
Well, why should I scribble on this as long as I live in a world which had poisoned Socrates, crucified Jesus, shot Lincoln and Gandhi dead!? Centuries passed, mammoths are gone, but humans are all the same! However, truth ever triumphs and more the intolerant kills, louder the voices roar and history proves it. And that's all for now. Peace out.
- Rahul Sharma
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