Tavleen Singh writes: In praise of Democracy

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In the week gone by, this newspaper has paid special attention to the Emergency. Long articles have been written by politicians and journalists who remembered what happened during those 19 months 50 years ago, when democracy was replaced by dictatorship. As someone who got my first job in an Indian newspaper barely a month before Indira Gandhi imposed press censorship, I value those ‘dark days of the Emergency’ because it was that time that taught me to revere democracy. It disturbed me last week that so many Congress leaders tried to defend the indefensible, in their puzzling compulsion to please...