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A seven-year-old’s memories of when democracy was jailed and Punjab stood tall

July 03, 2026 7:16 pm

A personal recollection of the Emergency through the eyes of a child whose father was imprisoned, and a tribute to the courage of ordinary Punjabis who refused to bow.

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When Court No. 24 became the legal preface to Emergency

June 28, 2026 6:55 am

Fifty-one years later, Indira Gandhi v. Raj Narain remains the courtroom preface to the Emergency. Court No. 24 reminds us that constitutional crises do not always begin with a proclamation. Sometimes they begin when ordinary legal rules finally attain extraordinary political power.

BJP slams Congress, urges citizens to ‘remember truth of Emergency’

50 years of Emergency: BJP slams Congress, urges citizens to 'remember the truth of that era'

June 26, 2026 3:08 am

BJP president Nitin Nabin described the Emergency as the “darkest chapter in the history of Indian democracy”

Knowledge Nugget: Why the Emergency is Back in Focus: Understanding India’s Emergency Provisions for UPSC

Knowledge Nugget | Emergency back in focus: What UPSC aspirants should know

June 28, 2026 11:40 am

As NCERT introduces the 1975 Emergency in a Class 9 textbook for the first time, the episode is back in public debate. What does the Constitution say about Emergency? How many times has an emergency been imposed in India? Here's all you need to know.

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'

Prime Minister Indira Gandhi addressing the nation from the Doordarshan studio during Emergency. (Express archive photo August, 1975)

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.