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Gimme Freedom or..oops gimme sharia or..

When a country gives too much of freedom and facilities to its people, people tend to abuse it. Examples would definitely be the abuse of all the new railways that were introduced with hitech facilities. What happened? Well, people started stealing the equipment, leaving the exchequer drained with nothing to show, and the reputation of the country unsalvageable (is there such a word? There should be in the Webster’s dictionary with the example of those Indian people who steal for the “joy” of it). India seems to have an abundant capacity to forget these “trendsetters” but this is being reported worldwide and India has become a laughingstock!

Talking to some people yesterday, here in Delhi, and the general opinion among all of them was that people steal because they can, not because of any need! The general consensus was to keep CRPF jawans in each compartment! Not a bad idea, but the opposition parties (READ: khangress) would definitely call this a state of emergency because people are not “allowed to pursue happiness”!

To this pursuit of happiness, we can now add the desire of the peaceful people to create sharia courts! Really? What happened to the constitution? That’s not in favor of the peaceful religion anymore?  Give us sharia or give us a separate country!! Sounds like Patrick Henry saying give me liberty or give me death! The country is coming to a point soon, if not already there, where anyone can demand a different country! Is this what that famous freedom fighter Kanhaiya Kumar meant when he said Bharat tere tukde honge, inshaallah inshaallah!

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