Sedition and Restrictions on Free Speech are under the scanner today like never before. The bail verdict in the Disha Ravi case is the latest judgment to call out sedition. But how did it all begin. Tripurdaman Singh's latest book 'Sixteen Stormy Days' talks about the First Amendment to the Constitution of India, which revalidated Sedition in the Law.
Passed in June 1951, the First Amendment is said to have curbed freedom of speech, enabled caste-based reservation, circumscribed the right to property and validated abolition of the zamindari system. Do the Nehru and Modi Years have more in common than anyone wants to believe
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