Emergency by COOMI KAPOOR
First some background information; Coomi is a journalist working in Indian Express… One of the few newspapers which did not accept the 20 point and censorship of the Madam and faces immense difficulty due to that.
Her husband was also one of the journalists arrested by putting a frivolous case by a high and mighty individual of the Coterie gang.(you would understand that quote when you read)
Her co brother is the famous Subramanian Swamy who was one of the heroes of Emergency protest!
In an adventure streak akin to a movie, he hoodwinked the entire emergency machinery to emerge a hero of sorts!…
So now we begin this retelling of one of the darkest hours of Indian democracy…some comparisons are even worse than the atrocities committed by the British….
So next time many of my blind friends comment that the situation now is like emergency I would sincerely advice them to at least go though this mind blowing personal detailing of the atrocities of the Madam and her son…..
The court judgement which started it all…how it was manipulated and made into a drama of sorts….
How even the best commission called the Shah Commission report was crushed and burnt..
How a movie depicting this was seized and burnt by the prodigal son..
How the son made mockery of democracy and started Maruti as his pet hobby and made sure everyone was arm twisted into investing in this….(more in the book…)
The absolute censorship of the media…. First two days the electrical and water supply to the media houses were cut!… Then only the Raj approved news were allowed!!…
How (and why!!) Pranab Mukherjee tried to white wash the emergency in his book….
How massive sterilization camps were done with numbers and targets with guns and force….one widower was forced to do it only to end up dead on the table….no one batted an eyelid in spite of these atrocities….
How opposition was crushed worsen than the quit India struggle.
JP…a well respected leader who was arrested healthy and released years later with diabetes and damaged kidneys…
Vajpayee…..was arrested again healthy then house arrested after unnecessary surgery for appendix, then septicemia then slipped disc….. Body and mind both broken….
So many other leaders were arrested and kept in solitary….or sharing room with other prisoners withn a small stinky room with a hole in the ground serving as toilet…..Beaten,bruised and CBI and income tax department used as their own personal errand boys..
The worst was when in a zeal to catch George F, his brother was picked up and tortured without arrest and when he asked for water the constable was told to URINATE IN HIS MOUTH!…. Yes you read it right….sad brutal Raj and nothing else…
The licence Raj, the commission, the curruption and the atrocities leading to many physical and mental trauma and many times death…..
Students not getting permission to write exams, wrong arrests, wrong evictions, illegal slum clearance, no bail, instant re-arrests…..if you have a crime by a government to the innocent you can make it here…..
This was emergency….the dictatorship of a power hungry few who have thought that ruling this country is their birthright…
Kudos to Coomi for getting the emotions right in this one….don’t ever give it a miss….don’t forget…ever…don’t forgive….ever……
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