[Reader-list] SRK BLUNDER

[Rakesh Iyer]

Dear Shuddha

What I wish to clarify here is regarding my statement on 'freedom of
speech'. What I mean is that people are free to hold their views. In that
regard, Thackeray is free to hold the view that Shahrukh is a 'traitor',
that shouldn't be an issue here. Where Thackeray does wrong is inciting
people to commit violence against Shahrukh because he is a traitor. If
Thackeray feels so, let him go to a court of law and register a case against
Shahrukh for acting against India. As per the Constitution, if indeed it is
found to be true, the court will punish Shahrukh accordingly.

Instead, politics today has turned into mobocracy, whereby anybody who has a
mob behind him/her can do as he/she feels, irrespective of the problems it
creates for the others. Such politics should be deplored, and anybody
practicing it should be put behind bars.

Rakesh