Tuesday, March 24, 2015

India a land of politicians for politicians -in light of Amended IT Act 66A

India has always been a country of contrasts the hypocrisy of it is what we have gotten used to.Religion is the most used and abused tool of political choice and yet the common man has been grappling with laws that put a restriction on his very basic right of speech.

Section 66A of the IT Act 2011 very vaguely says

a) any information that is grossly offensive or has menacing character; orb) any information which he knows to be false, but for the purpose of causing annoyance, inconvenience, danger, obstruction, insult, injury, criminal intimidation, enmity, hatred or ill will, persistently by making use of such computer resource or a communication device,c) any electronic mail or electronic mail message for the purpose of causing annoyance or inconvenience or to deceive or to mislead the addressee or recipient about the origin of such messages shall be punishable with imprisonment for a term which may extend to three years and with fine.
Two years and a few arrests later the law today is amended not due to the efforts by the opposition or by the Information Technology bodies which house the who's of who of the industry but due to the efforts by the common man who was grossly affected by them.


We are a secular  republic with the right to speak our minds though the only people who seem to be able to do it are the politicians . The original constitution gave the common man the right to free speech no questions  asked the law was then amended by the congress to serve only one purpose "Political " the rising left and their questions including the then active and unbiased press  which questioned the administration for its stand on the partition was conveniently silenced.


Today the press plays only for TRPS where the moghul clout of one media entity can totally overthrow the voice of another with sheer bullying.

Today the only person who can speak his mind about religion is the politician who rallies votes based on this very fact. If we are to stand by the below law the whole existence of religion based political identity could be unconstitutional.


Central Government Act Section 295A in The Indian Penal Code272 [295A. Deliberate and malicious acts, intended to outrage reli­gious feelings of any class by insulting its religion or religious beliefs.—Whoever, with deliberate and malicious intention of outraging the religious feelings of any class of 273 [citizens of India], 274 [by words, either spoken or written, or by signs or by visible representations or otherwise], insults or attempts to insult the religion or the religious beliefs of that class, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to 4[three years], or with fine, or with both.]



The right to identity cannot be based on a political parties manifesto, it is one of the most basic right to freedom and which Section 377 clearly violates . Unnatural offences: Whoever voluntarily has carnal intercourse against the order of nature with any man, woman or animal, shall be punished with imprisonment for life, or with imprisonment of either description for term which may extend to ten years, and shall also be liable to fine.This law is British era old in a country which has  a rich culture of tolerance in its history and mythology this law should have been done away a long time ago, it exists today in the form a political identity insync with a religious cultural sentiment of our existing government.Why the hell our we paying crazy tax for ? so that we are slaves to the political games of every party in power, if we have to drag our asses out to petition to fight for our most basic rights what is the government doing in the first place if we agree with the fact that they have no time to think about these things because they are busy making the rich people rich what is the opposition doing sitting in parliament have we not elected our local Politicians so that we dont have to fight for our basic rights ? or are they too busy plotting and planning so that in the next five years they can make the rich people more rich ? 

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