more-inGurmehar Kaur, the 20-year-old student from Delhi University who started a social media campaign in opposition to the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad, has been trolled into silence, and has reportedly left Delhi due to rape and death threats. It was harder to slot Ms. Kaur with such ease. Ms. Kaur has disrupted the narrative of the dying soldier that is brought out by the right wing at the drop of a hat to shut down dissent. By that logic, the harassment of Ms. Kaur would also end up constituting ‘free speech’, which it is not. It took a while for apologies to be tendered to Ms. Kaur by some of the personalities who contributed to her painful experience.

Source: The Hindu March 01, 2017 18:40 UTC