On June 25 the country observed the 43rd anniversary of the Emergency imposed by the Congress government in 1975. The 21-month period saw a suspension of the rule of law by arbitrary diktat, something that seems to have been achieved without an emergency in Tamil Nadu. It just shows that where there is a will there is always a way. Prime Minister Narendra Modi thundered away in turgid prose about those infamous days when common freedoms were suspended by a figure he compared to Hitler, but