This article appeared in Smarane Dipanjan (In Memory of Dipanjan Rai Chaudhuri/DRC), a collection of essays in memory of DRC, A Publication by Association for Protection of Democratic Rights (APDR) in 2022. From them, I first heard the name of Dipanjan Raychaudhuri, four years our senior. That Dipanjan Raychaudhuri belonged to a different world – I knew little about it then, and still do not. It was in this atmosphere that Dipanjan Raychaudhuri joined the work of the Association for the Protection of Democratic Rights. Many times, Dipanjan Raychaudhuri would participate in these debates, and even respond on behalf of the editorial board.