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