OP-ED: McCarthyism and India’s moment of truth

India’s knee-jerk reaction to the Pegasus Project speaks volumes
Sometimes, all it takes to change the course of history is a single act of conscience. 

That’s what happened on June 9, 1954 in the US, during yet another inquisitorial public hearing in Joseph McCarthy’s persecution of innocent Americans as anti-national communists, an inherently unfair process where -- as the Harvard law dean Ervin Griswold aptly summarized -- the senator from Wisconsin was “judge, jury, prosecutor, castigator, and press agent, all in one.”