Jammu, Jan. 26 -- "You wereasked to bend, but youbeganto crawl" is a very famous quote of L.K. Advani, while referring to the attitude of media during the Emergency days (1975 to 1977). During a long spell of subjugation or under a threat to life, the people generally find it convenient to adopt this behavior either to escape pain of victimization and physical torture or to retain important positions in public places and the society or to continue earning bread and butter, or just to survive.

Another astonishing fact is that almost all the masters of India during her entire history of slavery came from the West. These masters being mainly aware of the history, geography, science and culture of their own homeland and the countries in the ...