What took my breath away was her response to my first question. She placed her chin on the palms of her hands like a yoga asana, and looked into the far distance. I repeated the question. ‘Why did you declare a state of Emergency?’ It was not rocket science to anticipate that, under the circumstances, this would have to be the first question. But Yunus cut in. ‘Ask the next question.’ All that I had heard about Mrs Gandhi being the ‘Iron Lady’ and ‘Durga’ vanished in that instant. I have seldom seen anybody look more petrified.
