'A timely memoir from an Indian journalist under siege.' - N. Ram 'Prabir Purkayastha's memoir recalls the past, with thoughtful omments on the present, and hopefully he will be free to project his vision of the future.' - Romila Thapar September 25, 1975. The students of Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi had called for a strike to protest the expulsion of Ashoklata Jain, an elected councillor of the students' union. Three months before,...