In the movie Gulam, there is a small town gunda. Nobody has guts to challenge him and people meekly submit to him, till one guy decides to stop his gunda-gardi. We enjoy watching movies in which truth, freedom and honesty prevail in the end. Our hearts sympathize with the heroes of such movies. But, in real life, we prefer to live meekly. Intellectuals of today have all the right ideas of democracy, freedom of speech, honesty and integrity on all the matters that do not directly involve them. But, when they are needed to speak up, stand up to small town gundas they prefer to look the other way.
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