orachante ormakkurippukal

"When the people fear the government there is tyranny, when the government fears the people there is liberty."
— Thomas Jefferson
The book “Orachante Ormakkurippukal” is a memoir written by Prof. T.V. Eachara Warrior about his son Rajan, who died in the police cell during the Dark Periods of Emergency. It is more than a memoir; it portrays the struggle of Prof. Eachra Warrior against the government’s brutality.

The critic of Congress Party and of Indira Gandhi often cites this as an example of their anti-democratic concerns. Mrs. Gandhi was a dictator during those years.
The problem is not of Mrs. Gandhi or the Congress or Mr.Karunakaran, as the sympathisers of democracy would argue; it is the failure of democracy itself. Why the Constitution-makers included the provision of Emergency in the Constitution? They were aware of the fact that the system is inadequate in tackling serious issues. So the incident, Rajan’s death, will remain as a question mark in the history of Indian Union, more powerfully when prominent personalities like Dr. Binayak Zen is under police custody.21