Uday Shankar president of FICCI to @SreenivasanJain @ndtv talks about the #Tandav controversy and what followed. "It worries me a lot. It's a matter of concern. Anyone anywhere in this country can hold anyone to ransom. The only fundamental right today in this country is
the right to take offense and if you claim to be offended you have far greater attention. That is a source of worry. People don't want to just change the channel if they don't like something. They want capital punishment, you want to company to be shut down, you want people to
be arrested. We are in a democracy, the joy of the democracy is that we can disagree. The overall mindset in this country is that I can take matters into my hand, I can lodge an FIR, bring a bunch of people and start shouting
and hold people to random. I am worried about this.
If you write a fictional story on someone and somebody gets offended, by giving a certain surname in a fictional surname you are bringing down their caste or community that is where we have come. It's a matter of alarm!
If you write a fictional story on someone and somebody gets offended, by giving a certain surname in a fictional surname you are bringing down their caste or community that is where we have come. It's a matter of alarm!
We need to come together and figure out that will the right to disagree and the right to express both be allowed to co-exist peacefully or not. #India #FreedomOfExpression
Towards the end, he said, "These are my views and I really believe in what I said. We are at dangerous crossroads' #India #FreedomOfSpeech #FreedomOfExpression
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