10 March 2021 Security personnel stand guard at the International Airport in Calcutta, in February 2006, amid a nationwide strike by airport employees against the privatisation of the Delhi and Mumbai airports. Bikas Das/AP Photo Security personnel stand guard at the International Airport in Calcutta, in February 2006, amid a nationwide strike by airport employees against the privatisation of the Delhi and Mumbai airports. Bikas Das/AP Photo Anand Teltumbde, a professor and writer, is currently incarcerated in the Taloja prison in Maharashtra, under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act. He is awaiting trial in what is broadly termed the Bhima Koregaon case. The ongoing debate on the Narendra Modi government’s programme to privatise public sector enterprises, or PSEs, has a certain ring of déjà vu. The proponents of privatisation argue, in support of the government, that private sector has always been more efficient than the public sector. Unbeknownst to them, this argument in its logical extension might lead to a preposterous but valid question: Why not privatise the government itself?