Martina Navratilova in Twitter row with 'Indian nationalists' - says JNU controversy not sedition (9 tweets)

Martina Navratilova takes on Indian trolls  on anti-national controversy

February 24, 2016, NewsCrunch

Iconic tennis player Martina Navratilova waded into the anti-national row in India asserting that what happened in JNU was not sedition and battling trolls who tried to take on her.

It started when Martina tweeted a link to an opinion piece by The New York Times writer  Nilanjana S Roy, "What passes for sedition in India".

Agreeing with the article, which took a critical stand on the right wing action on JNU and Rohith Vemula, Martina commented that ultra nationalism could easily turn into violence at worst, bullying at best.

As her tweet went viral, it did not go down well with the Indian nationalists who said anti-nationals deserved to be bullied and asked her to stop dishing out unsolicited advise.

But Martina was unapologetic, stuck to her points in a series of tweets and said, dissent was not sedition.

She tweeted saying: "Once again - it is not anti-Indian to disagree with a particular party. You just proved the point of that article...."

Following the controversy, she tweeted yet another link to a NYT edit which had condemned the JNU incident. The edit had quoted noted academic Pratap Bhanu Mehta saying, Modi government “have threatened democracy; that is the most anti-national of all acts.”
Martina frequently tweets her views on gay rights, environment and political extremism.

Martina Navratilova tweets on JNu controversy - battles Twitter trolls (9 tweets)