About the Book: Emergency Retold
It all started with a by-election in Orissa in 1972. Nandini Satpathy was
elected to the state assembly after spending lakhs of rupees. Gandhian
Jayaprakash Narayan raised the matter of corruption with the Prime Minister. Her
defence was that the Congress had no money even to run the party office. When he
found no response, he took the issue to the nation. One thing led to another
until JP gave the call that the battle was between the people who wanted the
government accountable and the government which was not willing to come clean.
Acclaimed author Kuldip Nayar, says the true