By Ananta Shesha Morarji Desai, a former prime minister of India in office between 1977 and 1979, was alleged to have been an informant in the employ of America’s CIA, or so says American investigative journalist and author Seymour Hersh. The allegations were made in a section of Hersh’s book ‘The Price of Power: Kissinger in the Nixon White House’ published in 1983. The allegations at the time were largely deemed ridiculous by Desai’s political peers and much of the Indian press including his enemies and detractors. Subsequently Desai brought a libel lawsuit against Hersh and the publishers o…