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Topic: Emergency

‘Was destined to be here’—Mark Tully on India, the ‘many ways to god’ & being banned during Emergency

In 2007 Walk the Talk with ThePrint Editor-in-Chief Shekhar Gupta, veteran journalist Tully reflects on luck, journalism & his book ‘India's Unending Journey’. Tully passed away Sunday.

From Ram Janmabhoomi to Ram Setu: RSS legal arm Adhivakta Parishad is everywhere, but nowhere

From shaping courtroom battles to mentoring future judges, the Adhivakta Parishad operates as the Sangh’s quiet legal force—visible in verdicts, absent on paper.

If there are many intellectuals in society, we should be nervous: PG Mavalankar

On 30 October 1979, political scientist PG Mavalankar delivered an address at the 14th AD Shroff Memorial Lecture in Bombay, outlining the roles and responsibilities of intellectuals in society.

The Tale of Pratap: What if northern India’s ‘most defiant’ newspaper existed today

The newspaper began its journey in Lahore in 1919, just two weeks before the Jallianwala Bagh massacre, originally as an Urdu publication. 

Did the Emergency give freedom to Dalits? Book offers new perspective 50 years on

During the discussion on 50 years of Emergency, journalist Bharat Bhushan said Indira Gandhi’s assertion that foreign powers were conspiring against her could be seen now too.

From pre-Emergency to post-Lalu era, the story of Congress’s irreversible decline in Bihar

Congress’s fall in Bihar was a long process that began well before Emergency & Lalu’s political dominance, including caste realignments & rising regional forces.

“Villain Indira” vs “hero RSS” binary is Sangh Parivar myth. Truth is more complicated

RSS wanted to overthrow Indira Gandhi using whatever means it could, and later had no moral compunctions in flattering and pleading with the same “dictator” who imprisoned them.

Not just ‘socialist, secular’, a lot more from Emergency-era 42nd Amendment still part of Constitution

In 1976, the 42nd Amendment to the Constitution not only added two words but also introduced changes in 40 Articles & the Seventh Schedule while adding 14 new Articles.

Karnataka govt should prioritise policy on bike taxi issue, not politics

ThePrint view on the most important issues.

Indians in US protesting Indira’s Emergency had scholarships dropped, passports impounded

Sugata Srinivasaraju’s ‘The Conscience Network’ moves the needle on Emergency literature, telling the story of academically bright Indians who risked their American Dream to turn the focus on India’s Emergency.

On Camera

Patel’s 1950 letter to Nehru: Find no legal power to deal with Press or men like Syama Prasad

Less than a year before the First Constitutional Amendment, Patel wrote to Nehru about Supreme Court rulings that had 'knocked the bottom out' of press control laws.

In the West, there’s anxiety. In India, optimism—Rishi Sunak says India poised to be leader in AI

On Wednesday, the former UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak was speaking in New Delhi at a Carnegie & Observer Research Foundation event on AI.

In a first, Indian small arms maker to bid for UK Project Grayburn to replace British Army’s SA80 rifles

Bengaluru-based SSS Defence has made public its bid for a major foreign military contract, targeting UK’s ambitious SA80 successor programme with its home-tested weapons.

No country is ever fully sovereign. Cold War era taught India its real meaning

India’s fraught neighbourhood places multiple constraints on its strategic choices. It leaves no time to take a deep breath, lean back and reset.