The Debt that all humans pay.. (From past writings..) First of all, a very Happy Diwali to all!!!! Where do I begin, I feel a lot of burden in telling this story. Just yesterday on the flight to my hometown I was trying to grasp the pace with which Ramchandra Guha has written 'India after Gandhi'. I kept on reading continuously for almost the entire flight. I was on the chapters about emergency, the resurgence of Indira Gandhi and her, you know what, let me talk about the emergency first. India put under the scanner.. civil liberties suspended.. opposition filled in the jails and guest houses.. media independence taken out. On the other side no more strikes.. business flows smoothly.. lot of good developmental work done.. ethos of discipline and hard work expanded into the minds of ordinary Indian. The moments that led to emergency were that of opposition from the JP movement which included violence and chaos. As Indira Gandhi put it there...