India, Oct. 8 -- Delhi University vice chancellor Yogesh Singh, on Tuesday, quoted Arundhati Roy, while giving an example of "hate speech" during a programme in DU's Law Faculty on "Hate speech and Electoral Politics in India".

"The Indian state, from the moment it became a sovereign state, from the moment it shook off the shackles of colonialism, it became a colonial state and it has waged war since 1947 in Kashmir, Manipur, Nagaland, Telangana, Punjab, Goa, Hyderabad. If you look at it, it is like a State that has been perpetually at war and a military war. Deploying the army against its own people, the State of Pakistan has not deployed its army against its own people, in the way the democratic Indian state has. If you look at who are...