Martina Navratilova serves ace on JNU row

March 02, 2016 09:07

Tennis legend Martina Navratilova has said her recent tweet on the Jawaharlal Nehru University sedition row that whipped up a storm of protest was to convey her view that violence and bullying solved nothing, and not to pass judgement on India.

The 59-year-old tennis ace said, "Having grown up under a totalitarian regime in what was a communist country (then Czechoslovakia, now democratic Czech Republic), I am pretty well-versed with what its like to live in an authoritarian, unfair system, where one is not at all free to speak ones mind without serious repercussions, she said.

Never did I presume to know the deeper story nor was I trying to tell the Indian people what to do in their own country

I merely suggested that violence and bullying dont solve anything. I also wanted to say that was true anywhere in the world, but couldnt fit that in thanks to the 140-character limit Twitter has."

The 18-time singles Grand Slam champion was trolled on Twitter following a February 22 post linking two New York Times articles critical of the Indian government and talking about the march in the capital by JNU students to protest the arrest of their union leader Kanhaiya Kumar, who has been booked for sedition.

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