NEW DELHI, June 14 -- No people in independent India have faced such blatant and mindless state terror as the inhabitants of the tiny Lakshadweep islands have been facing since the arrival of the new Administrator, Praful Khoda Patel, to the Union Territory in December 2020. The people have been so terrorized that several former Administrators of the Union Territory have compared it to 1975 emergency.
The new Administrator has, during the last five months, taken a series of draconian, seemingly illegal and negative steps that the peace and tranquility of the placid waters of the Lakshadweep islands have been hugely disturbed.
Patel has closed anganwadis, sacked dozens of employees who have been working for decades, banned meat from schoo...