In fact, in today’s India, Teesta Setalvad needs to be booked as she has become the Indian face of human rights and the fight against communalism. She, by hook or crook, should be convicted to set an example for other dissenting voices, to make them learn that in a totalitarian state, one cannot question Big Brother. Observing whatever has been happening in India over the past few years, one is indeed reminded of Orwell’s classic 1984, in which, the protagonist Winston Smith is ultimately made to love Big Brother who through continuous surveillance succeeds in creating a reign of terror. Interestingly, a large part of 1984 is about the falsification of facts not by the plebeians but by the totalitarian state. In it, three party men are made to confess their involvement in a conspiracy against the state following which they are executed. A photograph, however, proves them innocent as they were in New York and not in the country at all to conspire against the state. But nobody dares to uphold the truth as in a totalitarian state such as Big Brother’s, in the end, Orwell writes, “the Party would announce that two and two mad five, and you would have to believe it.”