Whenever the events like these happen, a large sector of the population is directly or indirectly is affected. Most people never want to get involved in the protests willingly. For people who were inside the college, who had no idea what was happening inside the college, were asked to stay inside the college.
The passers-by, from surrounding colleges, who got suspicious seeing the number of police officers or the QRT present on the college campus, the coaching institutes' going students, were in all affected badly with the row.
And the people who bullied or made it difficult to these people are the one's who call themselves nationalists and freedom fighters and are looking for Azadi or freedom. What are these people looking for? What kind of Azadi are we asking? Where is the situation heading?
In last few months, a new term has originated for Indian people, that is Intolerance. How can Indians be intolerance? All our grounds whether it be religious or political or any other grounds, we have been made out of tolerance.
In today's scenario, from my experience, anyone who alleges a particular politician or a religion is often treated as the hero for the another religion or political party. What kind of society are we heading to? We don't even realise, statements like these, the heroes we make out of these protests, are adding up to those bunch of political leaders, who have been ditching us for over 60 years. Also, the kind of response we are giving to these people are also motivating people to do such protests in order to get famous. As a citizen of a society, we need to be sure whether what course would we stand against, what would motivate us to fight.
What social media has done to us as a society, we are surrounded by the numerous events, and whenever we read a post about something or start a political debate online, it attracts a number of readers so quickly that soon it becomes a trend. It is easy for as a society to be united over an issue, and the recent political happenings are just proving it. A photo which criticises a particular party or an idea of a party accidently gets few hundreds like overwrites the work and image done by that political party.
Similarly, for a group of people or a player or anyone who makes a statement. It has become far more easy to become famous.
We are a democratic country, the constitution gives us an opportunity to do us whatever we want to, whatever we are looking for, but we as a society are ready to accept such a high level of freedom. Is the freedom of expression making us vulnerable to the slavery of our perception?
