Good article. You make a good argument in a language that most Indians can understand. However, I wish you had explicitly stated a more fundamental principle: It should not suffice that we only argue for the government to leave us alone as adults to make our own choices. We must point out--more fundamentally--that the government simply has neither the credibility nor the wisdom or even the competence to make such choices for anybody. Any reasonable adult can quite properly approach his parents for advice on matters mundane to the moral. The key here is that the adult's parents *know* him and can offer substantive advice and guidane based on this context of familiarity and knowledge, which may in fact be usefully applicable to the adult. The government--a group of mostly inept bureaucrats and politicians--have no personal knowledge of its people, cannot possibly make proper judgments applicable to the innumerable contexts of its billion citizens, and is simply incompetent at such matters. What needs to be pointed out is that the government's claim to moral authority is simply bogus, invalid, and itself immoral. More than just arguing for freedom as an adult from a mom-n-pop government, we must point out the utter lack of moral credibility of such a government. A government with no moral credibility cannot possibly offer moral judgments. The problem lies in the fact that people are willing to give the government the credibility it does not deserve in matters it can possibly know nothing about. Ayn Rand says it best in her magnum opus Atlas Shrugged: "[You] place politicians...into jobs of total power over arts you have never seen, over sciences you have never studied, over achievements of which you have no knowledge, over the gigantic industries where you, by your own definition of your capacity, would be unable successfully to fill the job of assistant greaser."