No Country for Bold Men

Yesterday I wrote a blog entry about a very questionable Indian food item that was delivered to our home in Bangalore.
Of course, though I was not at the receiving end because I was not present when the reptile was discovered in the food I was really shocked.
I wrote about the incident in my blog but had to delete it.
Reason: a defamation case was being filed against my relative who made the discovery.

The restaurant people came over to our house and gave a story about how clean their kitchens were and how pest control is carried out every week. They also said something to the effect that "we are feeding so many people." For God's sake you numbnuts, you are feeding people for money. My relative was being gentlemanly and did not speak their language, which is money.

Agreed, they did apologise, with a fruit basket and a 2009 diary. So when he sent a few emails to his friends just to make them aware, was it a wrong thing to do? In turn he was harassed and had to go to the police station because the f***ing restaurateurs had filed a defamation case.

So, in this bloody f***ing country of ours and in a city which screams metropolitan what exactly are we supposed to do when we find a cold blooded vertebrate in our food?

The cops are fed enough money and so is the Health department. And as commoners we have to think about where we stand financially before these mafia backed businesses.

I think it's just disgusting. If we had taken compensation (a bribe actually) and shut our f***ing gobs the matter would have been hushed and both parties would have benefited.

It would've been moral suicide for my relative but he would at least benefit monetarily. He chose not to go the monetary way and he ended up making an appearance at the police station for eating unhygienic food.

For the restaurant it is business as usual, for my relative he is still trying to eat normal food. To top that coping with the tension of a probable legal case for no fault of his.

So when the constitution of India talks about freedom of speech and expression what the f*** is it talking about? That you can't send personal emails to your friends warning them about a possible health hazard? Where do we draw the line between defamation and information?