COVER STORY
How different are the stories from those days of Emergency compared to the ones now?
Outlook Magazine - 01 October 2024
Emergency The Legacy/The Lunacy
Gandhi’s principal legacy remains the systematic replacement of institutional governance with the vicious precedents of personalised rule
Bans and arrests then, bans and arrests now. We have come full circle, say political experts
In a democracy, no ruler can be granted a carte blanche, like it happened during the Emergency, but the fact remains that we also learnt some valuable lessons during this period
The midnight knock that doused democracy and the saga of underground resistance
Bhindranwale was able to get away with wrongdoings because ‘in the eyes of the Congress leadership in Delhi, Punjab had a Sikh problem since Independence’
Indira Gandhi is dead and she cannot defend herself. But that doesn’t mean others can’t
For many journalists, reporting in the volatile decade of the 1970s was both exciting and challenging
Despite being under scrutiny during the Emergency, small journals like Himmat Weekly got around censorship by taking calculated risks
Was the Emergency just a forerunner of what an authoritarian state could achieve?
Gandhi’s principal legacy remains the systematic replacement of institutional governance with the vicious precedents of personalised rule
Bans and arrests then, bans and arrests now. We have come full circle, say political experts
In a democracy, no ruler can be granted a carte blanche, like it happened during the Emergency, but the fact remains that we also learnt some valuable lessons during this period
The midnight knock that doused democracy and the saga of underground resistance
Bhindranwale was able to get away with wrongdoings because ‘in the eyes of the Congress leadership in Delhi, Punjab had a Sikh problem since Independence’
Indira Gandhi is dead and she cannot defend herself. But that doesn’t mean others can’t
For many journalists, reporting in the volatile decade of the 1970s was both exciting and challenging
Despite being under scrutiny during the Emergency, small journals like Himmat Weekly got around censorship by taking calculated risks
Was the Emergency just a forerunner of what an authoritarian state could achieve?
OTHER STORIES
Political actors invoking the Emergency today would do well to remember the inheritance of Independence and the idea of India as a secular democratic republic, says Qurban Ali, son of former freedom fighter and Socialist leader Captain Abbas Ali
Bollywood has churned out a slew of biopics in the last decade, most of them formulaic. The latest among them, Kangana Ranaut-starrer Emergency, is yet to find a release date
Unlike other constituencies in the region, Kulgam stands out as a battleground for ideological conflict. The election results, expected on October 8, could lead to either celebration in the CPI (M) camp or the Jamaat-e-Islami camp
After fighting hard for Olympic glory and protesting against sexual violence, Vinesh Phogat has now stepped into a new role: the politician
The Manipur crisis is a complex, interconnected mess that spills across several borders, national and international
A clutch of meditations by writer, translator and literary historian Rakhshanda Jalil on Urdu poetry’s championing of inclusivity over hatred
Over the years, people living in villages along the Ganga River in the Malda-Murshidabad region in West Bengal have faced displacement due to soil erosion
Rita Sinha recollects her experience during Emergency, of her father going into hiding and her mother being arrested
