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‘50 Years of Emergency’: Political, social activists recall the ‘dark period’, say ‘memories still fresh’
June 27, 2025 9:14 am
Vaidya, another resident of Shimla’s Subhash Nagar, said: “Although I was released on bail much earlier than many of my contemporaries, the real sufferers were the families of those imprisoned for nearly 19 months.”
Inside Track: Emergency Tactics
June 15, 2025 7:05 am
This June marks the 50th anniversary of the Emergency, a black mark in India’s history when Indira Gandhi used sledge hammer tactics to silence the media. Even before the Emergency proclamation was signed, electricity supply to Delhi newspapers was shut off.
Emergency brazenly undermined Dr B R Ambedkar's Indian Constitution: CM Devendra Fadnavis
January 17, 2025 10:54 am
Fadnavis says the film Emergency has very well unfolded the developments to present the history before the people on screen.
Inside Track by Coomi Kapoor: Emergency reruns
June 30, 2024 10:04 am
Last week, the anniversary of Indira Gandhi’s draconian Emergency was commemorated in Parliament. But the outpouring of condemnation from the ruling party seemed more about scoring political points than genuine concern over the real issues involved.
There’s a chilling similarity
July 18, 2015 4:20 am
The tone of this government’s argument for the National Judicial Appointments Commission recalls how a former regime browbeat the judiciary in the run-up to the Emergency.
Modi, in Rajiv Gandhi’s mirror
July 09, 2015 8:53 am
A look at their sudden ascent to power and their first years in office reveals surprising correspondences.
I was law officer No 3
June 23, 2015 12:00 am
I resigned when Emergency was imposed — to little effect. India’s intelligentsia rationalised the tyranny
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