Swatantra stalwart
On the 75th year of India becoming a republic and the 50th anniversary of the declaration of Emergency, Dr Rustom Cooper’s temerity to uphold constitutional rights
is recalled
Parinaz M. Gandhi
"It was a terrible time for us. In the middle of the night we would get calls urging my father (Dr Rustom Cavasjee Cooper) to welcome the Emergency. All our family, including my sister and I were shadowed on our way to and from school. Our phones were tapped. My father’s employees would be stopped outside his office in Jehangir Wadia Building (now Mulla House) in Fort and interrogated, as were our chauffeurs. But my father had fought for the fundamental rights of the people of India so welcoming the Emergency was totally out of the question,” recalled his elder......
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