Dictators can't do anything. One, this is not Singapore, where a Lee Kwan Yu can rule with an iron fist for generations, even after 'retiring'. There are enough angry, hurt groups, motivated enough to take up arms and fight. Emergency-1975 was a shock, that this country did not expect. Hence we were taken by surprise. Two: This country is too huge and disparate for any army/dictator to rule over it by force. Unless the people acquiesce in it.
I was abroad, working in Dubai when the Emergency was proclaimed. I felt a sense of shame, hurt and helpless anger. Salt was added to my sense of injury when I went to a bookshop stocking Indian newspapers, managed by a Pakistani. (He was a nice person, this is not a reflection on him). Papers had all been sold out. I asked him "Indian newspapers mein emergency ki kya khabar ayee hai", and he said with some satisfaction, "arrey bahut buri khabar hai, Emergency laga dhi gayi hai, papers kat ke aye hain wahan censors se". Imagine, a Pakistani taking satisfaction (he did not flaunt it) in dictatorship being declared in India! Indian newspaper
Since that day, I have had a deep antipathy for this parasitic parivar, which seeks to foist its progeny, one after another, on us. De-racinated, sickularists, anti-hindu, running a contractor-raj, without a shred of self-respect, but carrying on as if they are royalty. Recall, the Italian Signora's lament, that the killers of Rajiv Gandhi had not been punished, "aap hamari vedhna samajh sakte hain"
