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Topic: Emergency

Don’t ignore us for top posts: IRS body tells Modi, and a visual timeline of the Emergency

A selection of the best news reports, analysis and opinions published by ThePrint in the last 24 hours.

NCERT textbooks will now feature more information on Emergency

HRD minister Prakash Javadekar says government working towards revising textbooks to include more on the ‘black period’.

A fresh ‘Emergency’, and the second ‘Chipko’ brewing in sweltering Delhi

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

Emergency anniversary: India was made a jail for selfish interests of Congress, says Modi

He accused the party for 'spreading illusionary fear' about the Dalits and minorities facing danger under the BJP.

Illustrating the Emergency: The darkest time-line in modern Indian history

Imposed by Indira Gandhi’s government, the Emergency lasted for 21 months, one of the darkest periods in Indian history.

Sardar Patel was happy to let Kashmir go, and what Deve Gowda’s bed yoga means for 2019

A selection of the best news reports, analysis and opinions published by ThePrint in the last 24 hours.

Jayaprakash Narayan was a strong opponent, with the moral authority that Indira Gandhi lacked

Coomi Kapoor's book The Emergency explores the complicated relationship between Jayaprakash Narayan and Indira Gandhi who widely differed in their opinions.

Indira Gandhi’s Emergency era through cartoons

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

Sanjay Gandhi zinda hai: The Emergency temptation is alive in Congress and BJP alike

Sanjay Gandhi’s excesses showed the problem with dynastic politics. With Maneka and Varun in its fold, the BJP cannot complain about it.

Mumbai’s not Hollywood, which is why we barely have films on the Emergency 

The way the ‘dark era’ of the Emergency hit the common man, it provided ample material for thought-provoking political subjects, but they were few takers.

On Camera

Henry George’s Single Tax offers a democratic alternative to communist remedies: DM Kulkarni

The immediate benefit of Single Tax would be to reduce the sale prices of land to nominal ones. Landowners would no longer find it profitable to keep idle lands, wrote DM Kulkarni in 1960.

China is taking India to WTO over subsidies, again. Here’s what it’s arguing before trade body

Dispute will now move to consultative process, which allows the two sides to come to an amicable agreement within 60 days.

Israel has ‘realised who its real friend is’, eyes defence expansion in India amid arms curbs by others

It is argued that India-Israel ties are moving from buyer–seller dynamic to one focused on joint development & manufacturing partnership, a shift 'more durable' than traditional arms sales.

Dhurandhar shows hard cinema is soft power and Pakistan is unapologetically the target

If Pathaan gave both conservatives and liberals room to hide, Dhurandhar extends no such courtesy. Aditya Dhar ripped open that tent of hypocrisy and turned the knife.