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Review: A Comprehensive Look Back at the Emergency Which Holds Important Lessons for Today A new book by Christophe Jaffrelot and Pratinav Anil examines Indira Gandhi's authoritarianism, Jayaprakash Narayan's muddled politics and how the RSS craftily gained respectability. Indira Gandhi, circa 1973. Photo: Wikimedia Commons Rights10 hours ago Indians woke up on June 26, 1975, to learn that a national emergency had been declared. Opposition leaders and others were jailed, habeas corpus was suspended and newspapers would be censored. Today marks the 46th year of that announcement. For an event ...

Nandigram votes to decide Mamata Banerjee's future. How has it voted in the past Nandigram votes to decide Mamata Banerjee's future. How has it voted in the past Nandigram, one of the 30 seats where voting is taking place in Bengal on Thursday, has become the epicentre of the electoral contest not only in the second phase of polls but of all Assembly elections. advertisement Voters arrive to cast their votes in Nandigram on Thursday (Source: PTI) Nandigram, one of the 30 seats where voting is taking place in West Bengal on Thursday, has become the epicentre of the electoral contest not only ...

17 March 2021 Farmers protest at the Singhu border in November 2020. Several social activists see echoes of the JP movement in the ongoing farmers' agitation. Shahid Tantray for The Caravan Farmers protest at the Singhu border in November 2020. Several social activists see echoes of the JP movement in the ongoing farmers' agitation. Shahid Tantray for The Caravan Social activists who were part of the JP movement, led by the political activist Jayaprakash Narayan in the 1970s, see echoes of that movement in the ongoing farmers’ protest. In March 1974, the JP movemen...

DNA Explainer: How Emergency imposed by ex-PM Indira Gandhi in 1975 changed Indian politics forever Rahul Gandhi, Congress leader and grandson of late PM Indira Gandhi said that Emergency was a 'mistake' and what happened in that period was 'wrong'. (Image Source: File Photo) Updated: Mar 3, 2021, 06:17 PM IST On June 26, 1975 former President Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed proclaimed national emergency across India, under the directions of the then Prime Minister of India Indira Gandhi - which lasted for 21 months. During this time elections were suspended and civil libe...

Book Review: JP To BJP: Bihar After Lalu And Nitish By Santosh Singh As a new government takes office in Bihar, the book JP to BJP: Bihar after Lalu and Nitish looks closely at the process of saffronisation that has taken place in this landscape. book cover Ashutosh Kumar Thakur 2021-02-26T07:48:36+05:30 Book Review: JP To BJP: Bihar After Lalu And Nitish By Santosh Singh outlookindia.com 2021-02-26T07:58:32+05:30 One day, Green asked Saffron: what keeps you so vibrant? Saffron smiled: a lot of Green inside me. Once upon a time, the Eastern Indian state of Bihar p...