Recently there were clashes between the students of ABVP, a student union body backed by the ruling BJP party, and AISA, a student union body backed by the communist/left parties of India, in the Ramjas College of Delhi University. The reason of this clash was an invitation by the Ramjas college to two JNU (Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi) students Umar Khalid and Shehla Rashid whom ABVP students were calling anti-national. ABVP students resorted to violence to force the university administration to cancel this invitation. Is this a ‘freedom of speech’ or ‘right to free speech’ issue? This clash has again given boost to the discussion of issues of ‘freedom of speech’ or ‘right to free speech’ in the country. The president of India Mr. Pranab Mukherjee said , there should be no room in India for the intolerant Indian. India has been since ancient times a bastion of free thought, speech and expression. Our society has always been characterised by the open cont
