Freedom of speech and expression which happens to be a natural right is acquired by a human beings on birth. It happens to be a basic right and is supposed to be the first condition of liberty. It occupies a primordial position in the hierarchy of the liberty. Freedom of speech and expression implies that an individual has the right to accord expression to his own convictions and opinions freely by words of mouth, writing, printing, pictures or any other mode. To put it in a nutshell it connotes the expression of one’s ideas through any communicable medium or visible representation, such as, gesture, sighs and the like.1 It is widely regarded in the modern times that the right to freedom of speech is the defining feature of a free society and it must be safeguarded at all time and at all costs. The foundation principle of a free society is that there must be an untrammeled and unhampered flow of words in an open debate. There was a constant and persisting demand demand throughout the Indian freedom struggle that there must be a written Bill of Rights for …show more content…
For the sake of successful functioning of any democratic system people have to be able to and should be allowed to form their own ideas. One must be able to receive many different ideas and information from many sources, reflecting many different perspectives, before being able to see the truth. Freedom of expression is highly fundamental and essential for the functioning of our pluralist society. Freedom of expression is not only indispensible for each individual’s self-fulfilment but it also constitutes one of the essential premises of a democratic society and one of the elementary conditions for its progress