TopicIndira Gandhi

Topic: Indira Gandhi

India needed a crisis to reform. It got one in 1991, thanks to Nehru & Indira’s Soviet model

Ila Patnaik - 16 July, 2021

India’s turn to a centrally planned economy began in the 1950s under PM Jawaharlal Nehru. But by 1991, the economy came to a grinding halt and faced a massive crisis.

West read Emergency wrong. India’s democracy mattered little to US, UK, Russia

Rudra Chaudhuri - 29 June, 2021

Archival documents on the Emergency show the incredible ease with which national capitals across the world pivoted to the new realities of India’s constitutional autocracy.

Bangladesh’s freedom wasn’t all about Indian military. Public diplomacy played a huge role

Anuttama Banerji - 26 March, 2021

India's efforts to end the 1971 Bangladesh crisis is remembered as a great strategic and diplomatic triumph. But little is known about the role played by civil society members.

Nehru went to cabinet on Kashmir, but Modi’s decision-making is different

Prateep Lahiri - 1 March, 2021

For a leader, the ability to take decisions speedily is a virtue but equally important is to weigh in the possible consequences.

Capt Satish Sharma, the Gandhi family loyalist who wasn’t apologetic about luxuries in life

Fatima Khan - 18 February, 2021

Former Union minister & Congress MP Capt Satish Sharma died in Goa, where he had been residing for the past few years, Wednesday night.

Motilal Vora, the Gandhi family loyalist, ‘uncle’ figure & chronicler of Congress history

Fatima Khan - 21 December, 2020

Vora, who died Monday aged 93, had been with the Congress since Indira Gandhi’s time. He was considered among the most 'consistent and loyal' party workers.

Plea seeks 1975 Emergency proclamation be held unconstitutional, SC issues notice to Centre

Bhadra Sinha - 14 December, 2020

A 94-year-old has filed the petition, citing her personal experience of her family's rights being infringed upon. Supreme Court says prima facie, it doesn't see any merit in case.

‘The walls are closing in again’ – Why I’m losing hope in India

Andy Mukherjee - 28 November, 2020

A disturbing arbitrariness has crept into policymaking, institutions have decayed and the economy’s structural deficiencies have worsened.

BJP alleges Khalistani agenda behind farmer protests, says Congress playing with fire

Neelam Pandey - 27 November, 2020

BJP IT cell in-charge Amit Malviya tweeted a purported video of protesting farmers where a man is heard citing PM Indira Gandhi’s assassination in an apparent bid to threaten PM Modi.