Image from Mathrubhumi (Malayalam weekly) 2 April 2023 The media in India became the central government’s lapdog long ago, with a few exceptions. Democracy bleeds when that happens. And democracy dies when the judiciary becomes the government’s handmaid. It is impossible for the citizens to get justice when the judiciary becomes a tool in the hands of the government. Anyone can be arrested for any reason. As it happened, for example, with the Kannada actor Chetan Kumar a few days back. He was arrested for tweeting that “ Hindutva is built on LIES .” He mentioned a few lies too, like: 1992 : Babri Masjid is ‘birthplace of Rama’ —> a lie . A few days after his arrest and remand to judicial custody, Rahul Gandhi was arrested for saying rather facetiously that too many Modis are thieves. Truth is a crime now. Humour is a crime too. A lot of our parliamentarians are hardcore criminals . There are murderers and rapists among them. There are swindlers and kidnappers. They continue t...
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