Revisit sedition law: Romila Thapar

February 18, 2016 08:58

At a time when Jawaharlal Nehru University Students' Union president Kanhaiya Kumar has been booked under sedition, eminent historian Romila Thapar said that sedition was a colonial-era law meant to clamp down on people and should be reconsidered in a free nation.

The veteran scholar, who taught ancient history at JNU for decades, also said universities should sort out matters and that student outfits should refrain from impressing their political parties by playing up issues.

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