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Tuesday, September 2, 2025
TopicIndira Gandhi

Topic: Indira Gandhi

India’s lofty aviation ambitions interrupted & the 1975 Emergency, when a ‘young democracy froze’

Global media also reports on Adani Group’s move to ‘press ahead’ with its investment deals and ‘shrug off’ impact of US criminal charges.

Why BJP Haryana dropped Bansi Lal’s kin, Kiran & Shruti Choudhry, from its Emergency ‘Black Day’ rallies

Bansi Lal, a trusted ally of Indira Gandhi and her son Sanjay Gandhi, was the face of the Emergency in Haryana. Kiran & Shruti Choudhry joined BJP from Congress before 2024 Assembly polls.

The phone call that changed everything. IAS officer recalls midnight imposition of Emergency in 1975

Serving as ADM in Delhi during that time, Prodipto Ghosh recounts how detention orders were issued under MISA during the Emergency.

When the Cabinet approved Emergency—after it had been proclaimed

‘Saving India from Indira’, memoirs of JP Goyal edited by Rama Goyal, gives a blow-by-blow account of the events leading up to the 1975 Emergency.

Revisiting Emergency 50 years on: The 10 architects behind Indira Gandhi’s crackdown & their legacies

Some continued to wield political power even after the Emergency, others had their children enter politics & there are even those who retreated into the political wilderness.

Emergency showed extent of executive power. 50 years on, it’s still embedded in Constitution

Indira Gandhi did not need to introduce new laws to give the Emergency teeth; such provisions already existed.

‘India will never accept dictatorship’—Amit Shah on 50th anniversary of ‘dark chapter’ of Emergency

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’.

JP wasn’t a saviour of Constitution. He called Mao his guru

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.

These 80 Indians in America mounted the first protest against Indira Gandhi’s Emergency

In ‘The Conscience Network’, Sugata Srinivasaraju focuses on the pivotal role of the Indian diaspora in US in resisting Indira Gandhi’s authoritarian rule.

From Brutus to hero—How former Sikkim CM Dorjee’s image changed in state’s history

Biraj Adhikari blames the MEA for treating the Chogyal’s 1956 visit as a ‘state visit’ and playing the Sikkim anthem. His book captures his generation’s dilemmas — are Sikkimese truly Indian, especially under Article 371F?

On Camera

India has 30 days to pull off fast reform. Hold crash meeting of Centre & state

In India, we are accustomed to glacial change. We love appointing Committees to ‘look into’ reform. Unfortunately for us, the rest of the world moves fast.

A Rs 33,000 cr ‘banking fraud’: ED’s case against Arvind Dham, Amtek’s web of ‘500 shell companies’

ED has accused Amtek promoter Arvind Dham of controlling web of nearly 500 shell companies operating as a layered structure, with up to 15 levels of indirect ownership, to divert funds.

‘Real-time, all-climate’ explosives detector could enhance airport & border security—no dogs, no swabs

Bengaluru-based CeNS designs accurate, portable, and cheap sensor using surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy. It could significantly reduce risks at vulnerable choke points. 

For Indian Mercedes, Asim Munir’s dumper truck in mirror is closer than it appears

From Munir’s point of view, a few bumps here and there is par for the course. He isn’t going to drive his dumper truck to its doom. He wants to use it as a weapon.