Dear Sir,

I write to you as an everyday internet user as well as an aspiring e-entrepreneur on a shoe string budget.  I use the wonderful invention of mankind called the internet more than the oxygen I breathe.  I use the internet to reach out to friends, family and thousands of others through social media like Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr. 

Using video calling feature through internet lets me connect to my family and friends spread across the globe, making sure that their support is just a call away.  

As a journalist, I use internet to research for my stories as well as to file the stories on the go to meet the 6 pm deadline (in a publication that considers net neutrality “nonsense", but my views are independent of the publication I work for). 

I use internet forums like Reddit as a sounding board and it has helped me in more ways than one to deal with pressures of life.  

Few years back when I almost reached clinical depression stage, I owe it to the internet for helping me sail through the dark phase.

It is not in the best interest of the internet community to bring in discriminatory internet.  

While free internet is a huge incentive, it is unfair that only few websites, applications, which have signed up for the services will be available, limiting the users to reach to other websites. 

While the Prime Minister is talking of encouraging entrepreneurship, how do you expect thousands of aspiring entrepreneurs who do not even have enough funds for marketing or hiring a developer to sign up for making internet free for audience? That will need more funding and either a promising entrepreneur would have to shut shop because of lack of fund to make the product available for free to audience or will end up paying more for funding leading to higher burden.  

This is just the tip of the iceberg. This will affect the economy adversely in more ways than one. 

I request you to please consider this as a personal appeal and an appeal on behalf of millions of users who are fighting for the cause of net neutrality to take into account our side of the situation.

Thank you,

Nirwa Mehta