{"id":8331,"date":"2022-10-29T04:44:15","date_gmt":"2022-10-29T04:44:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/calamur.org\/gargi\/?p=8331"},"modified":"2022-10-29T04:46:40","modified_gmt":"2022-10-29T04:46:40","slug":"column-the-right-to-offend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calamur.org\/gargi\/2022\/10\/29\/column-the-right-to-offend\/","title":{"rendered":"Column: The Right to Offend"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Can we really say we have freedoms if we don&#8217;t have the Right to Offend. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.freepressjournal.in\/analysis\/nations-plight-the-right-to-offend-and-get-offended-writes-harini-calamur\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">I write for the FPJ <\/a><\/strong>on the heavy hand of those who are offended, and how they mess with the rights of others. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Earlier last month, Independent Gujarat MLA Jignesh Mevani posted something sarcastic on Twitter. It was about the Prime Minister, Narendra Modi\u2019s upcoming tour of Gujarat. He accused Mr Modi of worshipping Godse and appealed to him to make a plea for peace in the areas that saw communal skirmishes in the state. It was not a particularly coherent or logical statement. But statements like that gain traction. And the tweet went viral, and that had a different set of consequences. Someone in Assam got upset and filed a complaint against Mevani.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"504\" data-attachment-id=\"8332\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/calamur.org\/gargi\/2022\/10\/29\/column-the-right-to-offend\/image-4-4\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/calamur.org\/gargi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/image-4.png?fit=844%2C664&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"844,664\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"image-4\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/calamur.org\/gargi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/image-4.png?fit=640%2C504&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/calamur.org\/gargi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/image-4.png?resize=640%2C504\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8332\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/calamur.org\/gargi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/image-4.png?w=844&amp;ssl=1 844w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/calamur.org\/gargi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/image-4.png?resize=300%2C236&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/calamur.org\/gargi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/image-4.png?resize=768%2C604&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><figcaption>The Right to Offend, is a part of freedom of expression<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Jignesh Mevani was arrested by Assam Police, from Gujarat and taken to Guwahati for questioning. When he got released on bail, he got rearrested on a trumped-up charge. After 9 days in jail, for a tweet, it took the trial judge to take umbrage with the state\u2019s actions, and the \u2018manufactured evidence\u2019 to let Mevani go. Mevani spent time in jail because someone got offended.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In January, businessman and social media convener of the BJP in Maharashtra, Jiten Gajaria posted a picture of Rashmi Thackeray, wife of Maharashtra CM Uddhav Thackeray, with a caption \u201cMarathi Rabri Devi\u201d. The context was that Uddhav Thackeray was down with some kind of viral flu, and the reference to Rabri Devi indicated that Mrs Thackeray will take over as CM. There was an uproar, and Gajaria deleted the tweet. But that wasn\u2019t the end of the matter. &nbsp;In a city which the Shiv Sena claims as its own, those who got offended at that tweet, put pressure on the cops to call in Gajaria for questioning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In Mumbai, Gajaria was summoned for questioning by the Cyber Police in Mumbai, and then a case was filed against him in Pune. &nbsp;The cases are still on. For a tweet people found objectionable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;In both cases \u2013 Mevani and Gajaria \u2013 the process is the punishment. While what Gajaria and Mevani tweeted could be considered \u2018in bad taste\u2019 if you start putting people in prison for bad taste, we will have no place for murderers, rapists, tax evaders and terrorists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A vindictive state run by petty people can wreak havoc on lives. Mr Mevani and Mr Gajaria, despite having political organisational might behind them could not escape some random person getting upset. &nbsp;And, the state instead of offering the offended person a tissue to cry into, abets in trampling on the rights of the individual to assuage some cry baby getting hurt. And, as a nation and a people, we sit by and let this happen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Section 153A of the Indian Penal Code, deals with those offences that lead to \u201cPromoting enmity between different groups on grounds of religion, race, place of birth, residence, language, etc., and doing acts prejudicial to maintenance of harmony\u201d. Sections 505a and b, deal with \u2018public mischief\u2019 \u2013 with the intent of causing trouble between groups. And, both are taken seriously, given the propensity of our fellow citizens to react to rumours and riots. Both carry jail terms.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Filing charges under these sections against those who offend other people\u2019s sensibilities is a dangerous trend. Using the state machinery, and the absolutely torturous process to settle scores with political opponents is the slipperiest slide to a banana republic. And the ease with which our system allows for it, needs to be seriously looked at.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">With state elections approaching, it is likely that the war of words will intensify on social media. The idea here is to provoke a response from the other side. That response cannot be the uninhibited use of state power against the individual, who has offended someone\u2019s sensibilities. Each time someone gets arrested because someone else got offended by it, we are reducing all our freedoms. And, there are some questions that we need to ask, and demand answers for \u2013 for example, &nbsp;If the police need to charge someone under Section 153 A or 505 \u2013&nbsp; is just a complaint by some aggrieved party worker enough? Or does there have to be due process? What is that due process?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In both cases their respective ecosystems came to the rescue of Mr Gajaria and Mr Mevani. The right and the left rallied behind the two men, respectively. And they created enough noise, and expressed enough outrage so that everyone else noticed, and asked why?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What would have happened if these were unknown ordinary citizens \u2013 with no wing to claim as their own, and no outrage to protect them from being forgotten in the deep recesses of jail? If well connected politicians can be harassed by an offended system, what happens to people like us with no access to mass media, no coverage of our predicament, no social connections amongst organised groups?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One simple solution to this is not to say anything that will offend someone. But, the whole point of being a democracy is that we can hold and express views that others find offensive. When we penalise people for holding these views \u2013 we diminish democracy. As a people, we need to understand and internalise the right to offended \u2013 and protect those who exercise free speech, rather than siding with bullies using the law to stifle expression.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Can we really say we have freedoms if we don&#8217;t have the Right to Offend. I write for the FPJ on the heavy hand of those who are offended, and how they mess with the rights of others. 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