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Editor: Dr. G.G. Parikh | Associate Editor: Neeraj Jain | Managing Editor: Guddi
Fifty years after Indira Gandhi imposed the Emergency, history is turning a harsher gaze not just on her authoritarian turn but on Jayaprakash Narayan’s fateful alliance with Sangh. Legitimised by JP’s misjudgment, the RSS has wrecked India’s democracy, institutions and political culture.
The demagogue has convinced himself that the nation can be talked up and talked out of the ruler’s mistakes and mis-steps.
The rulers of “Naya Bharat” have introduced an imbalance in the civil-military equation. And if the politicians seek acceptability on the back of the soldiers’ sacrifice, the generals in turn will aspire to a louder voice in shaping the republic’s collective destiny.
From its apprenticeship days in Gandhinagar, the Modi crowd has had a fascination for unorthodox policemen and their unconventional – and often unlawful – repertoire of tricks and treats.
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