The government cut off electricity to newspaper offices on 26 June 1975, the day after the Emergency was proclaimed, in order to buy time to set up the apparatus of censorship.
Taking jibes at Congress at an event on the eve of the anniversary, the home minister announced 25 June will be observed annually as ‘Samvidhan Hatya Divas’.
A look at the events prior to the declaration of the Emergency reveals that it was the anti-Indira agitators, led by Jayaprakash Narayan, who brazenly acted against the Constitution.
Salman Rushdie’s allegorical 'Midnight’s Children', Rohinton Mistry’s unflinching 'A Fine Balance', and Nirmal Verma’s haunting 'Raat ka Reporter', emerged as acts of remembrance and resistance.
In ‘The Conscience Network’, Sugata Srinivasaraju focuses on the pivotal role of the Indian diaspora in US in resisting Indira Gandhi’s authoritarian rule.
Rajasthan, Gujarat, Punjab & Delhi working on real-time database of available resources. Districts where drone & missile attacks have been reported conducting ambulance dry runs.
This isn’t an obituary of Manoj Kumar. It's about the influence he had in defining patriotism for two generations of Indians across our most perilous decade, say from 1962 until the run-up to the Emergency.
Shastri’s legacy is unfairly overshadowed by peace he made at Tashkent and a visit that also took his life. Among his contributions were Green Revolution and talent-hunting Dr Swaminathan.
About the attacks by alleged Khalistan supporters, foreign ministry spokesperson said it continues to concern about violent protests, ‘high commission in touch with community’.
Islamabad-based think-tank PICSS's new report says Pakistan saw 'pronounced escalation' in violence last year, with 3,413 conflict-related deaths compared to 1,950 in previous year.
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.
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