The essential BG Verghese - Bangalore - DNA: "He is 83 and has just published his memoirs, aptly titled for a journalist who reported on India for 60 years, First Draft, Witness to the Making of Modern India.
But, then, for those who know the history of post-independent India, Verghese has been more than a witness to the making of India at its foundational levels; the vandalising of constitutional institutions and unfolding of emergency. Varghese was a participant too.
The editor who lost his job at the Hindustan Times for daring to criticise prime minister Indira Gandhi (and he was information advisor to the same PM from 1966 to 1969)contested the post-emergency Lok Sabha elections in 1977 from Mavelikkara in Kerala, and thereby took his critique from writing and reportage to the highest platform available in a democracy. It was a pivotal moment."
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