JNU Row 2016: How democracy revealed the cracks in the Indian Society

by Shobhit Dixit

In February of 2016, an event transpired at Jawaharlal University in Delhi that started to show seepages in India's understanding the expression "Freedom of Speech and Expression". Politicians and students came face to face to debate what true Freedom is. News channels, parliament, the courts, the president of India - no one was spared. This was an event that should be etched as one of the fundamental changing points of what we understand as India. The debate still goes on, even today. But the sheer divide the JNU Row of 2016 distilled in the people of the country, about what Patriotism, Nationalism, and Freedom of Speech means - a debate worth having for any country.

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Published January 5, 2017