“But the idea is really that today we are facing a fundamental threat, and if all those who have faith in constitutional values and all those who value diversity of the human kind, come together, understand the nature of the threat and work to defend our own Fundamental Rights,” he added. He said that people can disagree with both the characterisation, as well as the way forward. Preventive detention laws such as Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA) and National Investigation Agency are being used as tools to instill fear in civil society,” he added.“The book is an attempt to make sense of the contemporary crisis by characterising it as an undeclared emergency, and also think of ways of responding to the crisis,” Narrain told TNIE. “The untrammelled use of preventive detention laws by the authoritarian state, and the pervasive sense of fear in people then and now. Calling the two ‘emergencies’ the “lowest moments of democratic decline in India”, Narrain said there are two striking similarities between the two.
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