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Posted by admin on 2024-02-12 |

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In today's ever-evolving world, the control of thought and speech has emerged as a critical issue that demands our attention. What looks like a subliminal misuse of power in quotidian life, poses a grave threat to the fundamental principle of what democracy entails. Democracy, is coupled with freedom of thought, expression and opinion. Enforcing limitations on this would break apart the rudimentary structure of our democratic nation. It is alarming that the restriction on free speech is preceded by a resitriction on free thought. In the political jungle where dominance supersedes democracy, there is an acute weaponisation of propaganda and censorship. Especially in the current political debacle, the dominant groups have acquired control like no other. The political conversation around our country is orchestrated by and with their own rhetoric. In a diverse conglomeration like India, the dominant groups have polarised and divided us in ways that go unnoticed. In a democracy concealed by autocracy, the control and pressure put on free thought is the evil unaccounted. In an age where technologial advancements in aritifial intelligence is starkly synonymous with progress and human evolution, the freedom of though, free will, and expression is subsumed into the matrix of control and destruction. It is through destroying free thought that power places itself over all the rest. Human beings are vicariously transported to a world where free speech and expression is never free. The constant price that is paid to the monopoly of the one in power, is our voice, internal and external. Privacy is now a word in the dictionary whose meaning is destroyed by the replacing of the Private with the Public. It is through publicly controlling our thought, that the ones in power retain their privacy. It is at a time like this, where Antonio Gramsci’s theory on hegemony retains its political significance like no other: “Coercion becomes less when hegemony is stronger.” It is imperative that we, as a society divided and differentiated by control, create a political front that radically fights back to this systemic political abuse on humanity. Then, perhaps, our current retreat from secularist thought can retrace it ways to what was originally inscribed in our constitution, and our democracy can occupy its rightful place