A curfew in the Sri Lankan town of Kandy will be temporarily lifted on Thursday, authorities said, following days of violence against members of the minority Muslim community by Buddhists.
Tension has been brewing in the island nation over the past year, with some Buddhist groups accusing Muslims of forcing people to convert to Islam and destroying Buddhist archaeological sites
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A journalist who went to Tihar Jail for ‘waging war against the Government of India’ recalls the days of the Emergency
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Like in fascist Italy, trains ran on time and government moved faster and better. Besides, there was less corruption
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Like Indira Gandhi, Putin or Erdogan, if you think that media criticism is part of a larger foreign conspiracy then your perception of democracy is flawed
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In an email interview, Subramanian Swamy, Vice-president of the Bharatiya Janata Party, talks of the reasons behind the Emergency and why it can never be imposed again
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What the imposition of the internal emergency really meant for the people and the press and how the government’s propaganda machinery worked overtime
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