Your insider insight into the dark days of Emergency was thought provoking. Althought, South India was spared much of the attocities, it was truely Orwellian in content and form.
Although Mr. B Patel was very sensible, one might start wondering another BJP successor now Mr. Modi, under no pretext of Emergency practises no better than those days, Just read the diaries of the brave Sreekumar, where he notes that the request from the CM are atrocious even under Emergency time. A loyal civil servant is denied his due promotion for not toeing the unlowful line.
Anyway, it was illuminative to read your assessments.
