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Of Student Protests, Right-Wing Nationalism & An Orwellian Society #SplitOpinion
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Of Student Protests, Right-Wing Nationalism & An Orwellian Society
The youth in any nation is her strength and her future. And by supporting the youth, generations across the world can and have strengthened their own country, fine-tuned their own democracies, and furthered their freedoms for a better future.
Today, in India, however, a large section citizen is not just turning their back to youth but supporting the use of oppressive force against them. This is indeed a peculiar situation, for, with such a stand, the citizens are voluntarily and swiftly eroding their rights and personal freedoms enshrined in the Constitution. It is for these freedoms that millions have fought for over centuries and thus gained it from the British. This is the same democracy and freedoms that we protected with care and nurtured for 70 years.
Against this background, what have we come to? How else can one not see this denigration of another student protest (#JNU) for something as simple as the reduction in fees being termed as anti-national?
Do we have solutions? Have we lost our collective conscience as a nation? Is the brainwashing complete?
Of Student Protests, Right-Wing Nationalism & An Orwellian Society
The youth in any nation is her strength and her future. And by supporting the youth, generations across the world can and have strengthened their own country, fine-tuned their own democracies, and furthered their freedoms for a better future.
Today, in India, however, a large section citizen is not just turning their back to youth but supporting the use of oppressive force against them. This is indeed a peculiar situation, for, with such a stand, the citizens are voluntarily and swiftly eroding their rights and personal freedoms enshrined in the Constitution. It is for these freedoms that millions have fought for over centuries and thus gained it from the British. This is the same democracy and freedoms that we protected with care and nurtured for 70 years.
Against this background, what have we come to? How else can one not see this denigration of another student protest (#JNU) for something as simple as the reduction in fees being termed as anti-national?
Do we have solutions? Have we lost our collective conscience as a nation? Is the brainwashing complete?
8 Min.