Kanhaiya Kumar addresses students and activists at Jawahar Lal Nehru University (JNU) in New Delhi. Pic/AFP

This February, India got its most famous student politician. Till then, the reluctant celebrity was busy leading the students’ union of Jawaharlal Nehru University in obscurity (as is the norm) to the world outside. But on February 6, after controversial slogans were allegedly made in the campus, a case of sedition was built on three students of the university and they were arrested.