A Natural Leader
Can she change the fortune of the Congress party in UP in the days to come?
Indira Gandhi
Khalistan: Sikh diaspora supports local action
The rise in militancy among Sikhs is more than a national issue; recent eruptions are testaments to resentment that has brewed since 1984, and may be strongest among those abroad
Hardnews Bureau Chandigarh
Emergency? So what?
Mehru Jaffer Lucknow
Emergency: ‘My first night underground was with dhobis behind the Statesman’
Abeer Kapoor Delhi
Emergency: This Month, that Year
A journalist who went to Tihar Jail for ‘waging war against the Government of India’ recalls the days of the Emergency
K Vikram Rao Lucknow
Emergency: JP Movement veterans have Samajwadi Party to thank for pensions
Pradeep Kapoor Lucknow
40 years after Emergency
Like in fascist Italy, trains ran on time and government moved faster and better. Besides, there was less corruption
Sanjay Kapoor Delhi
Editorial: Emergency Recall
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
Hardnews Bureau Delhi
My contribution was to force Mrs Gandhi non-violently to find a way to legitimise the Emergency by winning an election’
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
Sanjay Kapoor Delhi
Iconography of the Emergency: Official narratives versus the People
What the imposition of the internal emergency really meant for the people and the press and how the government’s propaganda machinery worked overtime
Hardnews Bureau Delhi