No internet, no life

After the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India received over a million comments on its consultation paper on the regulation of over-the-top service players, as many as 73,326 people posted their views on the Department of Telecommunications report relating to Net Neutrality on the government's platform for citizen engagement, mygov.in. A quick look at the comments showed that most people wanted a free internet. One of the comments said, "We don't need to be controlled anyway... jeene do humey jaise hain hum (let us live the way we are)", while another explained why the internet was indispensable: "Today, we can think (of) life without onion and potato but not without the net."