India has decided over the years, for better or for worse, that keeping the nation together is more important to them than freedom of speech. This is why the fi

India has decided over the years, for better or for worse, that keeping the nation together is more important to them than freedom of speech. This is why the film censorship board is so strong here compared to most other democracies, for instance. I'm an American expat living in India and it's still quite alien to me after a few years. The government really can tell you to stop saying something because it offends someone else. They can do that because the alternative is that hundreds or even thousands of people die. My opinion on that decision isn't terribly important because I'm not Indian; it's not my decision to make. It's a very deliberate compromise that the Indian people have found over the decades.