Looks as if your country is under a phase of transformation. We earlier had two meanings for socialism, marxism, democracy, secularism etc. A new term meaning of “freedom of speech” has been formulated by Barkha Dutt. This “Kargil ki Rani” just made a blogger apologize unconditionally for his blog post where he accused this Iron lady for her shoddy journalism.
I don’t think Chyetanya Kunte said something new. It was repeated again and again all over the blogosphere. Everyone criticized her for being too desperate in reporting the Mumbai attacks. Pushing mics in the mouth of victims is in no way a dare-devil act, showing how commandos are landing on the roof of the buildings did more harm in my humble opinion.
Barkha once had said that bloggers need to be controlled on what they write. Bloggers are actually common people who havnt done any journalism courses and what they said comes directly from their hearts. They constitute a bigger section of the society rather than those qualified journalist who form a small negligible section of this huge society.
How can one forget that she used to accuse politicians each time something wrong happened in our country. Did she have any proof against them? If no, then how can she force Kunte to remove posts in which he accused Barkha?
After Mumbai attacks, government tried to regulate the broadcasts of these news channels including NDTV. It was this Queen who shouted that government has no right to regulate them. Can’t she apply this logic to blogosphere too?
P.S.: Am exercising my freedom of speech and using that explanation which we all know, not the *Barkha’s* explanation of freedom of speech
