from the courts and took out black-coat processions, though to no avail. However, this was the last supersession in the history of the Supreme Court, and eventually, the judiciary even wrested the power of judicial appointments from the executive in a landmark ruling in the Advocates-on-Record case in 1993 (also known as the Second Judges Case). The New York Times, wrote at the time: If India ever finds its way back to the freedom and democracy that were proud hallmarks of its first eighteen years as an independent nation, someone will surely erect a monument to Justice H R Khanna of the Supreme Court. It was Justice Khanna who spoke out fearlessly and eloquently for freedom this week in dissenting from the Court's decision upholding the right of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi's Government to imprison political opponents at will and without court hearings... The submission of an independent judiciary to an absolutist government is virtually the last step in the destruction of a democratic society, and the Indian Supreme Court's decision appears close to utter surrender. This judgment has been consistently lauded by lawyers, scholars, and intellectuals alike and has been compared to the dissent of Lord Atkin in Liversidge v Anderson. Nani Palkhivala's book, which came out soon after the emergency was revoked, carried a full-fledged chapter on him titled, "Salute to Justice Khanna". At one point in the chapter, he says of Justice Khanna, "his statue must be installed in every street and corner of the country for the yeoman service rendered by him for the cause of justice". In December 1978, his full-size portrait was unveiled in his former court, courtroom number 2 of the Supreme Court. To this day, nobody else has had the singular honor of having their portrait put up in the Supreme Court during their lifetime. In fact, when the Supreme Court Bar Association asked for contributions from its members to collect Rs 10,000 for the portrait, within half an hour Rs 30,000 was on the table and the members of the bar had to be forcibly stopped. Post-judicial career Upon the suspension of the emergency, the Janata Party which was preparing for the impending elections urged him to contest them but he refused to prefer instead to carry on chamber practice. He was highly active with it, taking international arbitrations into his early nineties. After Indira Gandhi lost the elections of 1977,