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Pune Crime Files: Who was Shrikant Lingayat, the RSS activist jailed during Emergency and murdered in 1982
October 06, 2025 12:48 pm
As the RSS celebrates its centenary year, the organisation’s Pune unit commemorates its worker Shrikant Lingayat, who was killed in an attack over four decades ago, with tributes and events.
‘Babasaheb Ambedkar’s socialism was for the welfare of the nation, state and people, not for personal politics’: Prakash Ambedkar
July 07, 2025 12:23 am
'What Shankaracharya has stated is part of the same RSS/ BJP game plan. They want to replace Constitution with Sanatan'
Emergency, Congress and a politics of hypocrisy
July 01, 2025 11:23 am
50 years after Emergency, Congress has neither apologised nor learnt any lesson
Ravi Shankar Prasad at Idea Exchange: ‘No leader can dare to impose an Emergency. That’s the biggest positive consequence of that struggle’
June 30, 2025 8:25 am
Prasad, who was arrested under MISA during student protests and had spent several months in detention, has been a vehement critic of the Emergency led by former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi
Tavleen Singh writes: In praise of Democracy
June 29, 2025 8:22 am
We may not be the ‘Mother of democracy’ as our Prime Minister likes to tell the world, but in modern times, we have been a democratic republic, and this is something we should all be proud of. Democracy is something that we must cherish.
‘Have started to focus on specific issues rather than on parties as institutions’: Tharoor
June 29, 2025 3:40 am
He said that when the Emergency was declared, he was in Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy studying International Affairs on a scholarship in 1975
Ex-ADM recalls Emergency: The night Delhi fell silent, fearing ‘something far-reaching’
June 28, 2025 10:57 am
Meenakshi Datta Ghosh, one of five ADMs posted in the Capital when the Emergency was imposed, recalls
Karnataka Congress lodges complaint against BJP social media post equating ex-PM Indira Gandhi with Hitler
June 27, 2025 1:34 pm
The Bengaluru police registered case based on a complaint by Karnataka Congress general secretary S Manohar.
Lanka arrests Indian fishermen because their rights were given up during Emergency: Jaishankar
June 28, 2025 2:55 am
The Emergency was imposed to ‘break the morale of the country and the society’, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar said on Friday.
Kuldip Nayar’s son recalls Emergency: ‘My father was held to scare the press… He paid the price for honesty’
June 27, 2025 6:52 pm
Former The Indian Express editor Kuldip Nayar fought fiercely for press freedom during Emergency, and was jailed under Maintenance of Internal Security Act
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