What makes you think it is not respected now? Are you an Indian. I think my individual rights are fairly well protected (except if i'm in lawless state like Bihar)
I am an Indian and I can point you to a number of incidents involving banning of books, movies and jailing of artists. People jailed for posting anti Sonia Gandhi messages on Orkut[1], banning of the comic Savita Bhabhi[2], seizing of Ask Me servers pre trial[3] are recent relevant examples off the top of my head.
Apart from [3] which I don't have much idea of, the other two instances, the state acted within the framework of the law. Granted that, the orkut case the state cracked down disproportionately. But If i want to criticize sonia gandhi on a blog, I can as long as I keep the language civil. That's what I meant by my comment that my freedoms are fairly well protected.
We do have some very archaic laws and I woud like less censorship on the matters of religion and pornography but even within the current framework of laws a great deal can be done
