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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

Bads of Bollywood can’t get more brazenly nepo. The joke’s on us

After watching the most discussed series on Netflix, I was planning to write an asterisk-heavy column. As a tribute to the asterisks in its...

Market regulator SEBI clears Adani Group of impropriety alleged by Hindenburg Research

SEBI probe concluded that purported loans and fund transfers were paid back in full and did not amount to deceptive market practices or unreported related party transactions.

India takes a relook at Russian Su-57, but not for its stealth. Here’s why

India exited the Indo-Russian FGFA programme in 2018. But now it might procure at least 2 squadrons of Su-57 aircraft from Russia and evaluate Russian proposal to manufacture them in India.

India doesn’t give walkovers to Pakistan in war. Here’s why it shouldn’t do it in cricket either

Many really smart people now share the position that playing cricket with Pakistan is politically, strategically and morally wrong. It is just a poor appreciation of competitive sport.