Letter to BS: Test of governance lies in the capacity of regimes to listen

Even in regimented autocracies, dissent is present in some form or the other. It has never been known to disappear and it simply simmers till it finds the right outlet. In avowed democracies, the test of governance lies in the capacity of the regimes to listen, respond to then channel disagreements to a greater purpose. The definition of the sedition from the Macaulay era has kept us stuck in a socio-political quagmire in this day and age of digital evolution.

The ongoing violence in parts of Delhi pales before the fracas at the Jawaharlal Nehru University earlier. If the latter was