![]() ![]() ![]() That nightmare has long ended, but the facial fuzz remains, perhaps a reminder of the horror that was and could yet be, as the Bharatiya Janata Party patriarch, Lal Krishna Advani, has so ominously feared.Ĭoomi Kapoor’s immensely readable and engrossing re-telling of the darkest 21 months of Independent India is a reminder and a wake-up call even to those who still have vivid memories of Indira Gandhi’s Emergency. Three days later, on June 25, 1975, the stubble was taken as a personal protest against Emergency. ![]() Publisher: Penguin India Pages: xxvi+390 Price: Rs 599įorty years to the day I write this, I returned to Ahmedabad from a tribal area deep in the Dang forests of Gujarat, after a week’s voluntary service at the health centre my friend Dr Fouzdar ran there. ![]()
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