"Every citizen should have the right to internet. Government wants to sell even the internet to big Corporates. One million people have registered to fight for net neutrality. Youth have voted, they are asking on twitter, facebook and all other platforms. They are fighting for net neutrality and this government wants to carve out the net and hand it over to some Corporates. I request the government to please stop the TRAI consultation and to look into changing the law or writing a law for net neutrality"- Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi in Lok Sabha.#RGforNetNeutrality
Save Dissent to Save Democracy THE rising instances of physical violence and threats against political opponents and the inability to accept dissent must raise huge concerns amongst all of us who see democracy as perhaps the really stellar achievement since Independence. AAP’s attack on BJP headquarters and acts of arson committed under the very noses of their elite leadership; the attacks on Arvind Kejriwal and Manish Sisodia in Gujarat in the last two days; the recent manhandling of the caretaker of journalist Siddharth Varadarajan’s house by some garden variety thugs; and the violence and threats meted out regularly to their political opponents by political parties is surely deplorable and condemnable. This is a fatally flawed trend which will destroy the very foundations of our democratic institutions if not pushed back with all the strength and condemnation that the civil society can mobilise. Replaying the past To begin with, it must be clarified that we should ...
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