Hyderabad, June 25 -- Venkat Parsa

Annually the Emergency Anniversary on June 25-26 has been converted into a political platform by the Indian Right, along with the Left, to derive political mileage by running down Indira Gandhi, easily among the greatest Prime Ministers of India, and tom-tomming their perceived role in what they claim to be the preservation of democracy. This, they do, by being economical with truth; if the full truth is brought out, then they may not know which way to look. Thereby, they try to refurbish an unflattering image and try to acquire a shine that is absent.

Indira Gandhi, for her part, took full moral and political responsibility, as Head of the Government, for the decision to impose Emergency on June 25, 1...