Trinamool Congress in under fire again for asking Facebook US to drop down the content that see DIDI in defamation. This has been building on the bad after a series of episodes --from calling rape as a political weapon adopted by CPM to imprison the professor of Microbiology in a supposedly false implication--and are likely to see more in the future.
The defenders of DIDI have proclaimed several arguments ranging from the in-cognizance of Mamata about most of these frame-ups to attempting watering down the fire of whole issue by merely recalling Mamata's launch of cartoonistic books a few years ago. The point is if she is the real defender of faith then she should have come to the rescue of those who are made to bear the brunt of her violently smug supporters. She is not only seen making staunch statements from the podiums but also, while doing so, is fanning more fire with her comments--referring to the word 'cyber' as one of the critical internal security bug. Instead, what would be more awe-aspiring (and I mean it in literal sense) is the use or preparation to use the official hand of State machinery to actually curb the 'post' button on blogging, or 'update' on Facebook. (That Indian IT still maintains a Blasphemy rule is a topic the threads of which would be spun some other time.)
"She is a woman in the political space that had never seen woman to the stature she has acquired with her hard work at grassroots," said one of her party member. Does this help when we reflect the kind of insensitivity she displayed while making off the cuff comments about the rape of a girl tagging it as CPM gimmick to defame her and her government. So often has she herself and her supporters made a similar point that to anyone out of the purview of Bengal (or even in Bengal) there is a remoteness being observed of the TMC and the people of West Bengal as if the former is some rigid teacher who is hell bent to doom the students in their exam while the teacher herself is morosely claiming the 'guard nature' as otherwise.
The right to protest is a part of free speech(ah! the totemic freedom !) in India. What lays out the irony in wide is when it is adjudged that Mamata herself had used her free-speech as a mean and measure of protest for several years. In a minimal effect, if all the overhaul of 'red' can be narrowed down, it could be done in allowance of speechifying and dissertations of Mamata from all across the West Bengal--under lights, amidst mud or while stalled in gunk; and as if in a converse, she took no time to stop such practices as soon as the first hand in protest raises. Similarly, when Mamata was cribbing in the shelter of her aggressively pacing sari toward Delhi about the row over the issue of Federal transgressing in the power realm of the State in case of Wal-mart and recently about NCTC, isn't that appear to be in accordance with her attitude now.
About her comments that the 'mind' should be applied to something meaningful, one can easily counter that by saying that when an artist uses his freedom to scribble and doodle, it is easily his best of mind. What can rather be mystifying would be to see a state Chief Minsiter unnecessarily applying her mind and experiencing anguishes over these petty things.
Facebook is a platform that allows a certain steps to be followed if one wishes to register a complaint--say, for the sake of argument--against anybody bent to defame, use libel against any user. But what the hell has it anything to do with State Government which--if it wishes to complain--need to have a Facebook account and then register a request against anyone who writes slanderous things on its timeline. It is almost absurd to watch a State Government picking up arms against the plethora of Facebook users in a puerile way of expressing peeve.
A positive thing that has emerged is the discussion about 'sense of humor' 'thick-thin skinned debate' 'tolerance intolerance'--all of which are much more vibrant than what we have recently seen because of the personalization of these through the epic figure of DIDI. It is suddenly very much easy to relate to all these discussions in a serious yet humor-sustaining way. And secondly, the TMC speakers won't be able to hog too much of the camera light as they had done for the past few months almost behaving like a small autocratic fangers for the others particularly the Central Government. It was so unfortunate that there was almost a narrative being established via the constant media bickering that if anyone could have the cojones to snap Center at its heels, it was Mamata and her TMC. No more of that hot air in the flared up nostrils.
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