India, June 22 -- Can we believe in Destiny?

As I was leafing through Star of Mysore monthly guide of March 1997, accidentally my eyes spied on this article with the above heading by no less a celebrity lawyer and jurist as Nani A. Palkhivala, published on 11th March. Since this article has a mention of Indira Gandhi and June 25, 2025 happens to mark the 50th anniversary of the Emergency declared by Indira Gandhi, I am reproducing the same.

-Founder-Editor K.B. Ganapathy

On the subject of destiny, everyone of us forms his own beliefs on the basis of his own experiences. All that I propose to do is to tell you a few incidents in my own life. I request you to keep an open mind and decide, without bias or prejudice, the right conclusions....