I always enjoyed reading Coomi
Kapoor column in Indian Express. Her book, The Emergency has brought very
positive reviews. The book has shared incidents which hitherto many of the
younger generations like me were unaware about.
I have not read the book, but
this is from the interview with Newslaundary wherein she shared the incidents
and very fairly accepts when she cowardly acted ( 25:01 - NL
Interviews Coomi Kapoor – Part 2).
The interview was very candid and
down to earth by Ms Kapoor. Nowhere she pretended that she knows the fact and
was custodian of an important event in the history of India (post
independence).
Thanks Newslaudary for the
interview and I believe this interview should be viewed and shared amongst all
the younger generations.
From the interview I wish to
state herein two statements which I appreciated no sooner they were spoken by Ms
Kapoor:
- Eternal Vigilance is the price for freedom ( 25:40 - NL Interviews Coomi Kapoor – Part 2)
- Arrogance of power does not change ( 23:53 - NL Interviews Coomi Kapoor – Part 2)
I think younger generations have
taken for granted Liberty. They need to wake up and remember:
"It is above all in the
present democratic age that the true friends of liberty and human grandeur must
remain constantly vigilant and ready to prevent the social
power from lightly sacrificing the particular rights of a few individuals to
the general execution of its designs. In such times there is no citizen so
obscure that it is not very dangerous to allow him to be oppressed, and there
are no individual rights so unimportant that they can be sacrificed to
arbitrariness with impunity."
- Alexis De Tocqueville
“Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien
power over us. The ultimate rulers of our democracy are not a President and
senators and congressmen and government officials, but the voters of this
country. “
- Franklin D Roosevelt
“Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty”
– Thomas Jefferson
References:
Interview links:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qsKqdLJB6zY
– for Part 1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=24-APN1XT6Y
– For part 2
Quotes:
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