I am delighted to say that as far as India is concerned, this is going to be an extremely short answer: We had one spell of censorship in our history, between June 1975 and March 1977, and that was sufficient to confirm that our founding fathers had been correct to make freedom of speech an inalienable right.
It is my view that Indian unity cannot survive dictatorship and its favorite child, censorship. Freedom for us is not a gift from government, but a fundamental fact of our unity and independence.
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