Keyword : Emergency

Emergency bomb: Advani provides fodder to Modi & BJP foes

It is hard to believe that in the age of social media activism in India there is a possibility of emergency-like situation in the country. But BJP leader LK Advani did allude to such a scenario and

Understanding Emergency from the pages of not so distant India

Emergency, as we call it, was imposed in my country more than a decade before I was born. My father too was a young man, still some years away from adulthood, having no reminiscences to pass over t

`Undeclared emergency`? Arun Jaitley`s answer recalls dark days

A New India: Selected Writings 2014-19 By Arun Jaitley, with a foreword by Prime Minister Narendra Modi Juggernaut Books, 384 pages, Rs 799 Arun Jaitley (

Why is Lanka in flames: the making of a crisis

This time it was not Lord Hanuman, but the poor decision-making of the political leaders combined with several global economic factors that set Sri Lanka in flames. A state of emerg

When Nandini Satpathy told Biju Patnaik: ‘I’ll sit on the chair you are sitting on’

Nandini Satpathy: The Iron Lady of Orissa By Pallavi Rebbapragada Simon and Schuster India, 321 pages, Rs 765

Recalling the day the Emergency ended

Saving India from Indira: The Untold Story of Emergency, Memoirs of J. P. Goyal  Edited by Rama Goyal Rupa Books, 284 pages, Rs 500 

This standout collection of essays marks 50 years of Emergency

50 Years of the Indian Emergency: Lessons for Democracy Edited by Peter Ronald deSouza and Harsh Sethi Orient BlackSwan, 338 pages, Rs 1025

Fifty years later, what we need to learn from the Emergency?

50 Years of the Indian Emergency: Lessons for Democracy Edited by Peter Ronald deSouza and Harsh Sethi Orient BlackSwan, 376 pages, Rs 1,025


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