What on earth is going on with governments! India has now decided to join the not-so-exclusive club of ignorant oppressors by arresting a 21 year-old for mildly criticising the virtual shut-down of Mumbai for the funeral of the ultra-nationalist Bal Thackeray. Shaheen Dhanda's "crime" was to write on her Facebook page on Sunday that:
"People like Thackeray are born and die daily and one should not observe a 'bandh' [shutdown] for that."
With all the rubbish and vulgarity that some youngsters post on Facebook, India should be proud that members of its youth can post intelligent and mature comments. India knows better and such hypocrisy does not become it. Apparently the arrest was prompted by a leading politician of the right wing Hindu nationalist party Shiv Sena, that had been founded by Mr Thackeray. The irony is that such nationalists are closer to like-minded bigots in other countries than anything that is of true value and uniqueness in the nation they purport to love. So it is not surprising that people in India are beginning to express outrage at these ridiculous charges.
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