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Topic1975 Emergency

Topic: 1975 Emergency

Bihar is ripe for civil disobedience over electoral roll revision. 50 yrs ago, JP showed the way

As doubts grow about India’s election system being weaponised to facilitate stealing of people’s mandate, it won't be long before ‘civil disobedience’ call reverberates across the country.

The ‘troubling questions’ in SEBI’s Jane Street crackdown & Ambani ‘prepares to welcome’ US ethane

India-China ties amid the Dalai Lama succession row, a cartoonist who captured the Emergency, and a 'lonely F-35B' also garner global media attention.

Ee Sala CM’s chair Namde & the knock knock joke you don’t want to hear

The best cartoons of the day, chosen by the editors at ThePrint.

Habeas no-Corpus & our Lord and saviour, Trump

The best cartoons of the day, chosen by the editors at ThePrint.

Why mothers tried to marry their sons into Nehru family during Emergency

Discussions at the launch of The Conscience Network by Sugata Srinivasaraju revealed how love and conscience quietly fueled a revolution far from the spotlight of the Emergency.

‘Dressed as a sadhu, a Sardar, a hippie…’: Shah on Modi’s 19 months underground during Emergency

New Delhi: He dressed as a sadhu, a Sardar, a hippie, an incense stick seller, even a newspaper vendor to stay underground. That’s how Union...

50 yrs since Emergency, Congress’s journey from justification to admission of ‘mistake’

Until Rahul Gandhi’s unequivocal admission in 2021 that the Emergency was a mistake, no Congress leader had explicitly apologised for its imposition without qualifiers.

Hidden pracharaks, coded postcards, and secret meals kept the RSS alive under Emergency

No one was sure when the Emergency, or the ban on the RSS, would be lifted. Deoras described it as a “war of nerves,” writes BJP leader Vijay Chauthaiwale.

‘Why Emergency?’—1975 Home Ministry white paper in Parliament gave reasons

An MHA document from 1975 lists the incidents in the run-up to Emergency—from Morarji Desai's demand for dissolution of Gujarat Assembly to student agitation in Bihar and the railway strike.

Rajnath, Shivraj & Javadekar. How jail term during Emergency shaped leaders of today’s BJP

Waves of detention, censorship, and other strong-arm tactics marked the 1975 Emergency years, and the RSS-Jan Sangh members were also caught in the current.

On Camera

A 2-hour op, precise extradition—what Maduro’s capture tells us about modern US military

Despite multiple agencies being involved, the US could maintain a clear chain of command. This is something India should consider too, as it defines the theatre command structures.

Trump threatens India with fresh tariffs on Russian oil, calls PM Modi a ‘good guy’

The latest comment comes as New Delhi and Washington have yet to sign a trade agreement. India’s purchase of Russian oil has reduced, but Moscow remains top source for crude.

S-300, Su-30 jets, T-72 tanks: Inventory of Venezuela’s largely Russian-origin arsenal

Venezuela also boasts of a diverse portfolio of unmanned aerial vehicles capable of carrying out surveillance, reconnaissance and being employed for kinetic purposes as well.

A year-end Mea Culpa in National Interest—The Army-Islam combo doesn’t kill democracy

Many of you might think I got something so wrong in National Interest pieces written this year. I might disagree! But some deserve a Mea Culpa. I’d deal with the most recent this week.