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Social Media though with its fair share of checks and balances, pros and cons has yet emerged as a victor. The social media has the power to catapult any lay man to the Zenith of success , so much that all other kinds of Media report it incessantly. A topic, latest by virtue of date, which has dominated social media, is the thrashing of JNU students charged with Sedition by the mighty ABVP, the flag bearer of nationalism at the DU in the Indian heartland. But what became the boiling point was the profile for peace video by a DU student (from LSR and not Ramjas where the incident took place) named Gurmehar Kaur, supposedly the daughter of a brave heart martyred in a terrorist infiltration in Kargil. This lady by her words and her identity as a martyr's daughter stole the show.
There was much hoo-hah on this issue, with some eminent journalists jumping into the bandwagon and running the show full time in their respective news channels . Opinions across different sects was of course divided. What was cheered as the champion of causes by a handful of feminist journalists received a lot of flak from their own fraternity. A girl who claims to be a nationalist's daughter pioneered the cause as an evangelist supporting those who chant the slogan of Bharat Ki Barbaadi as a prayer. A lesser known Bollywood personality even went on to call our national heroes as illiterate trolls when they called on the hypocrisy by a few from the media , who were obviously pawning the girl for peddling their vendetta and personal mileage. Subsequently, the poor girl even got rape threats from communists but the champions of Free Speech didn't waste even a minute blaming the right wing for it. The best part was instead of filling an FIR; the girl went to a news studio to rant over something as potentially serious as a rape threat.
Interestingly, there are people in the society who cry out loud for freedom of speech, are generous enough to call those illiterate, who share a different opinion than them. War in any form is bad. But history is privy that all sorts of war have been imposed on India and what we did was self defense. It's our karma. That's what the Bhagvad Geeta says. But then when we have flag bearers of pseudo speech here, who cares where the nation's heading..