On 21 March, when the Emergency was lifted, the Rajdhani arrived four hours late, L.I.C. workers in Kanpur came out on their usual lunch time morcha, a fist fight broke out in the dormant Press Club of Delhi, two family planning vans were burned in Calcutta, dancing school ads reappeared in the evening papers of Bombay, the price of smuggled scotch came down by 10 rupees. There was no mistaking it. Normalcy had returned to the country.
