Is India Becoming An Intolerant Nation?

Ban Bans..Ban saga hits India. 

First they stopped you from watching a documentary on Delhi rape case on TV, then they barred you from eating beef in Maharashtra. India's list of banned items keeps getting longer and some are so ridiculous that you will think the country has turned the clock back by a century or more.

A state that believes it has the right to circumscribe individual freedoms - from what we eat, what we see to what we make fun of - shows the rise of an increasingly intolerant nation which decides for us what is acceptable and not. This not just threatens the idea of a liberal democracy, it has economic consequences too - banning meat, for instance, is a blow to those who earn their livelihood selling it.

Most importantly, once we start conceding that individual freedom can be set aside on superficial grounds, we are on a slippery slope and we at Times of India fear that we are already there. This has to change. Join the Times Campaign to "ban the bans". Let the govt know what you think about its trampling on individual freedom.­

Source (Indian times news)