Former editor of Femina magazine, Sathya Saran looks back at the Miss India pageant that changed the lives of two young women.
'The darkest days of Indian democracy were (during) the Emergency when basic democratic rights were suspended. For a time it seemed as though India would move along the East Asian model -- everybody works hard, nobody asks questions, certainly not of the government.' 'There are people who say we are headed that way, but I am not persuaded by the evidence,' says Mahesh Rangarajan who recently resigned as director of the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library in New Delhi.
Dr Pinakin Shah visited the Land of the Thunder Dragon and returned mesmerized.
