Love in the Time of Emergency

S. Nihal Singh is a pre-eminent Indian political commentator and editor.  In a career spanning more than 50 years, he was at various times a sub-editor, a staff reporter, parliamentary correspondent, political correspondent, foreign correspondent and editor.  His sojourns abroad have been in Singapore, Islamabad, Moscow, London, New York, Paris and Dubai.  He has edited tow of India’s leading newspapers, The Statesman and the Indian Express, was founding editor of the Indian Post and editor of the Khaleej Times in Dubai.Among his publications are The Yogi and the Bear: A Story of Indo-Soviet Relations; Indiras India and The Gang and 900 Million: A China Diary.  Nihal Singh received the International Editor of the Year Award in New York in 1978 for his role as editor of the Statesman during the Indian Emergency of the 1970s.