The Indian State is a Coward "When the Indian state wants to laugh it probably reads Hegel's hypothesis, 'The state is the actuality of the ethical Idea,'" Manu Joseph wrote in the IHT Rendezvous blog. The language of the Indian state is "often sentimental, but in reality it is a practical corporation that tries to appease in the easiest ways possible its most valued consumers," Mr. Joseph wrote. But like most practical people, "the state is a coward," he wrote. It is willing to "completely eliminate imaginary risks to its survival" and is willing to "do even stupid things that have no meaning to achieve that,"-- that is why "there is no substantial free speech in India," he wrote.