Free person in a Free country

Today's three headlines, though geographically separated but they are connected:
(a) Amazon.cn censoring the offerings on its China retail website in order to comply with Chinese laws.
(b) MF Hussain still un-willing to return to India, considering Qatar citizenship. Indian govt said full security to be given if he decid...es to return.
(b) Riots in various cities of Karnataka after Taslima Nasreen's article about burqa appears in a local daily.

Freedom of thought and speech should not be negotiable at any cost. I am sure every Indian wants to live as a free person in a free country and not in a country like China where govt or some organization decides what you can read and what you can't. Its personal choice and logical debate is the way out if there are any differences in opinion.
This is how our founding fathers dreamt our country to be:


"Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high;
Where knowledge is free;
Where the world has not been broken up into fragments
by narrow domestic walls;
Where the words come out from the depth of truth;
Where tireless striving stretches its arms towards perfection;
Where the clear stream of reason has not lost its way
into the dreary desert sand of dead habit;
Where the mind is led forward by Thee into ever-widening
thought and action--
Into that heaven of freedom, my Father,
let my country awake." - Guru Rabindranath Tagore