Some of us who were born in 1940s did not feel the impact of India’s independence. We felt as if the political power was transferred from the British Empire to the Nehru-Gandhi dispensation. Jawaharlal Nehru was a democrat as long as he was the undisputed leader. Indira Gandhi had no such pretensions, she ruled over [...]
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