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Shashi Tharoor criticises Emergency: ‘Unchecked power’ turned into ‘authoritarianism’
Shashi Tharoor criticised Indira Gandhi, often referred to by the Congress and the Nehru family as the "Iron Lady", for ...
Indira Gandhi endgame: What impelled her to call elections?
Historians offer different reasons, from negative foreign press to adverse reports, to confidence that she would win. Gyan ...
The crisis before the crisis — how a failing economy was one of the triggers for the Emergency
Droughts, high inflation, and low growth over a 10-year period pit the country against the government and its leader ...
Shashi Tharoor writes of Emergency’s ‘unspeakable cruelty’, ‘deep and lasting impact on lives’
The Thiruvananthapuram MP adds to Congress discomfort with fresh remarks putting him at variance with his party ...
Shy of a ‘sorry’, Congress came to power again after Emergency, but never regained its authority
Rahul Gandhi said the Emergency was a “mistake” and “wrong”, but quickly added that the Congress never tried “to capture institutional framework” which, he said, was happening now.
‘Congress leaders wanted Indira ji, JP to talk, find a meeting ground… But it didn’t happen due to her coterie’: Govindacharya
Till February (1977), we did not sense that people were supporting us. Then, Jagjivan Ram, Bahuguna and Abdullah Bukhari ...
L K Advani’s prison diaries: Constitutional morality, Indira Gandhi, and Thomas Jefferson
In one of his entries, the BJP leader targeted the PM for purportedly citing the third US president to make an argument for ...
Ravi Shankar Prasad at Idea Exchange: ‘No leader can dare to impose an Emergency. That’s the biggest positive consequence of that struggle’
Prasad, who was arrested under MISA during student protests and had spent several months in detention, has been a vehement ...
Gandhian sites in Maharashtra’s Wardha to get Rs 45-crore makeover
These sites — the Gandhi Smriti Bhavan, the Kasturba Kitchen and the Wardha Haat — are located within the campus of the ...
In foreign countries, people still fondly remember Gandhi, Nehru & Indira: Supriya Sule
When I led the delegation of our country to four foreign countries, the first thing people there told me was that you come from the country of Mahatma Gandhi… They said Pandit Nehru had visited their ...