A Prisoner in Mrs. Gandhi’s India

George Fernandes, chairman of the Socialist party of India and leader of India’s railroad workers’ federation, faces trial in that country on the charge of “planned sabotage” and acting against the interest of India. Here is the text of a letter from Fernandes received by one of his friends in London. — Eds.

My arrest took place at about 3:45 p.m. on June 10, 1976, in Calcutta. At 4:30 p.m. I was taken to the Office of the Deputy Commissioner of Polic...