Aapaatnama

The wounds of the Emergency are deeply ingrained in the history of Indian democracy. Apatnama is the story of that dark night that prevented the sun of democracy from rising for nineteen months. The plot of Apatnama reveals how the intoxication of power breeds corrupt individuals. How freedom of expression was held captive by bureaucrats and politicians. How the judiciary was being manipulated as a puppet in the hands of the executive. How anarchic elements in the country began to act arbitrarily and how dictatorship was given free rein are the core issues of this story. Apatnama conveys the reality of the Emergency in a profoundly poignant and moving manner. The governments verbal orders wreaked such havoc on the people that some were experiencing a period even more terrifying than the British repression. The author has awakened the helpless, compromising, and indifferent people, who were facing the inhuman and terrorizing activities of the government, by hitting them with the hammer of rebellious consciousness, which he considers a miniature vision of revolution, so that parliamentary democracy is not made a mockery of, freedom of expression is not frustrated and the fundamental rights of the individual are protected.