Cairn and young women, let the world laugh at us.

"Police in Uttar Pradesh's (UP) Varanasi had booked Google CEO Sundar Pichai and 17 others last week over a video that allegedly defamed Prime Minister Narendra Modi but later removed the tech giant officlals' names from the FIR (first information report), police officials said on Friday." Lucky escape for Google. Varanasi is an extremely holy city for Hindus so foreigners better watch out. Not so lucky a 22-year old woman Disha Ravi from Bengaluru who was arrested from her home and transported to the capital by Delhi Police. "She has been charged with sedition and criminal conspiracy, among other offences." The arrest was carried out surreptitiously and, "Local police were not informed until well after Disha was on a flight to Delhi." If Delhi Police has violated procedures then was this a case of kidnap of an Indian citizen? "Law doesn't differentiate between a 22-year-old and a 50-year-old," said Delhi Police Commissioner SN Shrivastava. Absolutely, but does the police have the right to break the law? "Those who have anti-national thoughts in their mind must be completely eradicated. Be it Disha Ravi or anybody else," said Haryana Home Minister Anil Vij. 'Thought Police' welcome in India in 2021, instead of in '1984'. Nodeep Kaur was arrested in Kundli in Haryana for protesting in front of her factory where she worked. "The next day when I met her in jail, she told me she was beaten inside the van and at the police station. She was slapped and punched, and hit with shoes and sticks, including on her private parts, resulting in heavy bleeding for days," said her sister Rajveer Kaur. Then there was the relentless harassment of actors, mainly young women, for apparently possessing minor quantities of ganja, which is legal in many countries, including emerging economies. Arrests were made on a kind of rolling basis. In 2018, Indian marine commandos apprehended Princess Sheikha Latifa, daughter of Dubai ruler Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktoum, from a yacht in international waters and returned to Dubai where she has been held against her will ever since. Her crime? She wanted to live in the West. A sort of partial honor killing by the Indian state. The BBC has apparently obtained a video in which Latifa "describes the condition she is being kept in: solitary confinement, the windows barred shut and no daylight". Back to Disha Ravi. According to the FIR she was allegedly inciting riots through her toolkit, wrote NC Asthana. A man named in the toolkit is a member of the dreaded Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) of Pakistan. Thank God, there is no one from Boko Haram, Al Shabab or Islamic State. The toolkit was created by a pro-Khalistani group, said Delhi Police. "There is a call for economic warfare against India against India and certain Indian companies," says the FIR. Who knew we had a dangerous Matahari type hiding in Bengaluru? "In such cases, the normal language of a chargesheet under UAPA is replaced by storytelling, innuendo, presumption, extrapolation, stretching of the narrative and downright lying," wrote Colin Gonsalves. To add to the ordure, "Cairn Energy has filed a case in a US district court to enforce a $1.2 billion arbitration award it won in a tax dispute against India, a court document showed, ratcheting up pressure on the government to pay its dues." File FIRs against Cairn, the UK, the district court, the US and whoever. Let the world laugh at us.