India, March 18 -- There is a time to speak; there is a time be silent, says the Bible. When there is a time to speak and if one keeps quiet by suppressing one's voice of conscience, one is doing injustice to oneself and possibly a disservice to others too.
In today's India, one is expected to be silent. Not just expected. Terrorized, mauled, trolled and abused. Within the past half-decade, the Indian nation has witnessed many a gory incidents of cruel suppression of the voice of conscience. Writers and thinkers have been shot point blank in daylight, Kalburgi and others. Journalists have been told to shut up and pack off. TV channels and anchors who stood by truth and facts were threatened with a black eye.
Matters have speeded up. Today...