Renowned jurist Nani Palkhivala had written in 1974: Freedom cannot be inherited in the blood stream. Each generation will have to defend it and fight for it—then alone will it be passed on to the next. Liberty can die surely, though not as swiftly, in a democracy as it does in a totalitarian state. Only the husk of democracy—the one man, one vote rite—may survive after freedom has perished.
