The story few now remember: When free speech was muzzled the first time in independent India

Shyama Prasad Mookerji’s prophetic warning to Nehru, delivered during the parliamentary debate remains relevant as ever: “Maybe you will continue for eternity, in the next generation, for generations unborn; that is quite possible. But supposing some other party comes into authority? What is the precedent you are laying down?”

from News-Economic Times https://ift.tt/2RsTQdV