It happened in 2007, somewhere near the banks of Yamuna in Delhi. Students at an inter-university cultural meet were given a topic to speak on an hour before the event. "Kanhaiya spoke with passion and heart. He impressed everyone though he didn't win the prize," recalls Rahila Perveen, a fellow member of AISF (CPI's student wing) who had also participated in the competition. The topic: I am proud to be an Indian. Now almost a decade later, as he battles charges of sedition, the biting irony of the subject that the jailed JNUSU president Kanhaiya Kumar spoke on that afternoon can hardly be missed. This past week, the 28-year-old doctoral student was arrested on charges of sedition, kicked...
↧