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The ossification of free speech in India

" P ersons have a right or liberty to follow their own will in all things that the law has not prohibited and not be  subject to the inconstant, uncertain, unknown, and arbitrary wills of others. " Spake thus John Locke, among the most momentous leaders of the Enlightenment, the father of liberalism. It is not solely by virtue of our Constitution, but also in accordance with the most sagacious wisdom of our ancestors that we, the people of India, discern in one another an individual in one’s right, ever so unique. For it is nature’s very ordination that one respect the autonomy of the other. As do differ the genetic anatomy of two individuals, so do differ their streams of thought. A society best treads on the path of progress with free and forthright exchange of assorted opinions, for the benefit thereof is not merely intellectual but often pecuniary. The right to unfettered expression is an indispensable component of true freedom, for it is an impetus for the truth to emerg...