Who is Wolf? Who is Lamb?
The relevance and wisdom of Aesop's Fables are unquestionable. And the story of 'The Wolf and the Lamb', where a scheming wolf finds lame excuses to chance upon a lamb may be juxtaposed to draw similarities with the looming intentions in the contemporary world. In the Jawaharlal Nehru University incident, to be frank, I am not sure who the Wolf is. The Academia has emerged vehemently condemning the IPC Sec 124 A with calls to repeal the colonial law as it is not in sync with democracy and free speech. Further, by defining what is anti-national they are indeed concurring with the regime's definition of Nationalism. First of all, protesters need to know that India is not Bharat Mata and vice- versa as per the Sangh Parivar definitions. They need to differentiate between anti-establishment and anti-national. In the functioning of a vibrant democracy, a dissent against the current establishment may be organically born by the virtue of free thinking and free speech...