In an interview with a British journalist in 1977, then-Indian Prime Minister Morarji Desai argued that a democracy could function without a fully literate populace. Desai posited that while literacy enhances knowledge acquisition, even illiterate individuals possess innate intelligence and life experience that guide their understanding. Highlighting India’s unique cultural inheritance, he claimed that an illiterate man in India would know "more about the facts of life" than his literate counter

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#PMonAIR || PM Narendra Modi plays an audio clip of former PM Morarji Desai recounting the horrors of the Emergency, to highlight the scale of the crisis. In the clip, Desai says: “When the Emergency was imposed, people were treated inhumanly. Their right to freedom was snatched away, newspapers were silenced, and the judiciary was rendered powerless. Over one lakh people were jailed. Such arbitrary rule is rare even in world history.” #MannkiBaat | #MKBonAKASHVANI | #Emergency | #SamvidhanHatya