THE ugly face-off and the violent fallout between the Civil
Service and Delhi government remind us of EV Lucas’ short story, Face on the
Wall. The plot isn’t important. Still, “There are three extraordinary, three
most remarkable things” about the fiction. The first is the association between
a face-like patch on a damp wall and the life and death of a person. Second is
the link between the name of the living person and the place where the patch
existed. Finally, as the narrator concludes, “The third extraordinary thing
about the story is that I made it up about half an hour ago.” Similarly, there
are three astonishing and exceptional things about the physical assault on Delhi’s
Chief Secretary, Anshu Prakash, by Delhi’s elected MLAs (and ex-MLAs) of the
ruling Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) in the presence of the Chief Minister, Arvind
Kejriwal, and Deputy Chief Minister, Manish Sisodia.
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