‘Are you Woodward or Bernstein?’
‘Neither, they are both in America’, replied John, thus killing, once and for all, an altogether inappropriate comparison between the Watergate reporters and the authors of Delhi Under Emergency.
It was perhaps inevitable that this superb piece of investigative journalism, a rare specimen in India, by two young and relatively unknown journalists, would be compared to the Watergate story. But there the comparison should end. For all their courage, tenacity and commitment to unveiling the truth, the Woodward and Bernstein report remained essentially a story of intrigues in high places.