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If you tell me that you have freedom to express your views so long as it is pleasing to you and the moment I start speaking what you find objectionable you stop me. What kind of freedom is that? A boy born in a place where there are no good schools, no good teacher and then we hope that some brilliant genius will come out of that boy and place, does not make much sense. In a broader sense, India is unable to provide good quality education to all, does not have focused research programme but every year when Nobel Prizes are announced we still hope that somebody somehow from India will win it. The blunt fact is it is not like winning a lottery which anybody can win. It needs not just decades of dedicated hard work from an individual but also he has to be working in an important area which only certain institutes have the facility for.
Those from disadvantaged social and economic background always appear to be less smart, less expressive so even when they get degrees they find it difficult to get jobs. An MBA who is related to a corporate boss will get absorbed very easily at a high salary compare to an equally meritorious MBA from a poor family background.
What kind of freedom is that when all you are allow is to walk freely but you can not leave the four high walls of a prison? When after spending long years in that prison, even when the door opens you are out of prison but it is too late because you have nowhere to go.
True freedom and choices one can make do not exists in a vacuum. In a society over burdened by biases and prejudices, there is no level playing feel. Just to explain what is meant here that despite all well intentioned efforts by election commission, a party in power has explicit and implicit advantages over others which you can do nothing about.
True freedom can only exists in an egalitarian society where everyone has equal rights and equal opportunities.

https://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/columns/dear-school-leavers-5720017/