The offensive republic does it again. For cheering Pakistan cricket team’s win over the Indian team in Bangladesh, Indian state books 67 Kashmiri students under section 124 A (sedition), 153 A (promoting enmity between different groups) and 427 (mischief) of the Indian Penal Code.
Sedition charges in India carry three years prison sentence. Three years… for cheering and clapping! Wendy Doniger, you’re mildly lucky, India is pulping only your books. Here it is pulping sixty-seven young Kashmiri lives, for one of the most frivolous reasons possible.
Soon, we will hear that the fault is all with colonial laws, or the arctic chill in India’s much-touted tolerance is coming from the “Modi wave”. Continue reading
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