A Series of errors - With Anna Hazare, the government dialled a wrong number

Among my most enduring memories of the Emergency — which, mercifully, I experienced fleetingly, being overseas for most of the time — was an overheard conversation between two ‘progressive’ faculty members of Delhi University in early July, 1975. One of the two gleefully told the other of the strange shortage of teachers in the Sanskrit department. “Most of them have been arrested,” he chuckled. There was neither outrage nor fear in his voice, just a puerile delight.

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