Examine the list of those detained and you notice that besides her political opponents, it included many who she and members of her immediate family and friends were allergic to. They included two girls who were organising farm labourers around Indira’s farm, Maharani Vijayaraje Scindia of Gwalior who was flirting with the Jan Sangh and Rajmata Gayatri Devi of Jaipur who belonged to the Swatantra Party but was guilty of the more serious offence of being a lot better-looking than the Empress of India. Anyone who was related to, friendly with, or seen having tea with Kuldip Nayar was in trouble. Even one of her closest advisors, P.N. Haksar, was not immune. His relatives were arrested, his wife questioned by income-tax sleuths. All this because he had dared to note on an official file that the family ‘chacha’, Mohammad Yunus—who was provided with a government job simply to be able to retain a government bungalow—amounted to zero.