Recent events in West Bengal and the role of the Internet

The sit­u­a­tion in West Ben­gal (the state in India I come from) is get­ting scary. A Uni­ver­sity pro­fes­sor was arrested (and beaten up, though not by the police) for for­ward­ing emails con­tain­ing car­toons that were crit­i­cal of the chief min­is­ter. While it’s wor­ry­ing and sad­den­ing to see this kind of bla­tant repres­sion of dis­sent and intol­er­ance towards […]