I reiterate my old demand that Govt should set up a memorial in New Delhi dedicated to Emergency. There should be galleries on media censorship, horrible torture inflicted on political prisoners, including women, forcible sterilization of millions, inaction of judiciary, etc. 1/
This has become all the more necessary in view of repeated claims that there is no democracy in India today. People must know what does it really mean not to have democracy. 2/
Emergency sufferer actress Snehalatha Reddy wrote that women prisoners like her were "stripped naked in front of everyone else". She asked: "Must the human body be degraded and humiliated as well? Who is responsible for these perverse methods?" 3/
Student leader Hemant Kumar Bishnoi was suspended upside down on a stick between two chairs and beaten up. Cops poured water in his mouth to suffocate him. (Americans used a milder version called waterboarding on Al-Qaeda terrorists. ) 4/
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