IT'S strange that few people remember Jayaprakash Narayan, whose birthday on October 11 passed almost unnoticed. Yet, he gave India back its democracy, which Indira Gandhi had practically killed through her totalitarian methods—she gagged the press, detained one lakh people without trial and smothered effective dissent. On July 11, 1975, during those dark, Emergency days, JP wrote in his prison diary: "I had always believed that Mrs Gandhi had no faith in democracy, that she was by inclination and conviction a dictator."