Breaking The Walls Of The Echo Chamber

The short, simple answer is no. A longer answer is, however, complex to understand.  India is a diverse country, with hundreds of languages spoken and cultural groups all living within the same national border. We are governed by a government at the centre that makes and executes laws for a population of 1.3 billion people spread across the nation. It is, therefore, the government’s responsibility to ensure that peace is maintained among these diverse groups of people and that there is no outbreak of violence because of a comment or an act that can disrupt peace. While the Constitution of India recognises freedom of speech and expression as a Fundamental Right and guarantees to all its citizens the right to express themselves freely via written, spoken or printed material, we don’t have to go too far to realise that this right is not absolute.  A major socio-political challenge we face today is the intermingling of religion and politics.   These two have taken preced...

‘Gender dysphoria’ refers to the distress experienced by an individual when there is a mismatch between their gender identity and their sex assigned at birth. One is assigned their sex based on anatomy. For most people, their gender identity corresponds with their assigned sex and such individuals grow without experiencing the distress of “feeling out of place in one’s own body.” For some, however, the difference between their gender identity and assigned sex causes extreme confusion and turmoil. Typically occurring in (but not all) transgender and gender-nonconforming individuals, this can lead to them undergoing sex reassignment surgeries, hormone replacement therapy, as well as psychotherapy to cope with the distress.   Previously termed "gender identity disorder," gender dysphoria is defined as a “marked incongruence between their experienced or expressed gender and the one they were assigned at birth,” according to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorder...