Vikhar Ahmed Sayeed

The use of Section 124A of the Indian Penal Code, commonly known as the “sedition law”, has never been as much discussed as in recent times. But few political parties have taken an open stand against the law, except the Left parties.

ecular India has undergone several convulsions during the past 60 years, so much so that doubts about its survival were entertained by many. Some of them tend to relate these convulsions to the nature of Indian society, to which they attribute centrality to religion in both personal and public affairs. In such a society, it has been argued, secularism can only have a perilous existence, that too by compromising some of its basic tenets.