THE call came at 6.15am, from German freelance photographer Nick Nostitz. 'The police are going to move in any minute' he said.

By the time I was organised, it was over. Police had moved in and fired several rounds of teargas to clear a path through the People's Alliance for Democracy (PAD) which had besieged Parliament overnight with thousands of supporters, hoping to scupper the government's policy speech.

Read the rest of Nirmal Ghosh's blog and listen to an audio from the scene here.