A country's history reflects the flow of events through centuries. But dispassionate factual narration of a country's historical events, though extremely difficult, is a necessity. That will be a historian's right to free speech guided by individual perception of events.But is right to misinformation also part of right to free speech and expression? "On the possibility of peaceful co-existence between Hindus and Muslims, Sir Syed said, "To hope that both could remain equal is to desire the impossible and the inconceivable. "Right to free speech and expression of historians and scholars must be factually tempered, for they bear the unenviable task of meeting the countrymen's important right to information and right to dignity.

Source: Times of India October 23, 2017 00:11 UTC