People’s Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL) Cordially invites you to the 35th JP Memorial Lecture on A State of Emergency Date: March 23, 2015 (Monday), 5.00 pm, St. Joseph’s College 36, Langford Road, Langford Gardens, Bengaluru ~ 560027 To be delivered by Gopalkrishna Gandhi Former Governor, West Bengal, Former High Commissioner of India, South Africa and Sri Lanka But an Emergency’ is as much a creature of the mind as it is of the law. ‘It-can come into being, even without such a promulgation, in different ways. It can come in most easily and corrosively in the shape of fear, of reticence, of silence. The condition precedent for that ‘emergency of the mind’, is apathy. Jayaprakash Narayan has shown us how that std