Rahul Gandhi said the Emergency was a “mistake” and “wrong”, but quickly added that the Congress never tried “to capture ...

In May 1974, the arrest of George Fernandes in Lucknow ignited a nationwide railway strike, protesting poor wages and ...

It said, 'In exercise of the powers conferred by clause (1) of Article 352 of the Constitution, I, Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed, ...

If my elder sister does something wrong, it’s my duty to write against that', says Sahgal, 98, at her home in Dehradun ...

On this day in 1975, Prime Minister Indira Gandhi invoked special constitutional powers to declare a national emergency. It ...

The immediate trigger for Gandhi’s drastic step was a decision of the Allahabad High Court in 1975 that disqualified her from ...

India witnessed the beginning of 21 months of the Emergency imposed by then-Prime Minister Indira Gandhi. Fifty years after ...

According to JP, Indira Gandhi was not much of a danger to democracy. He said, it was Sanjay Gandhi and his gang.' ...

Sugata Srinivasaraju’s ‘The Conscience Network’ moves the needle on Emergency literature, telling the story of academically ...

Union Minister Ajay Tamta accuses the Indira Gandhi-led Congress of subverting democracy during the 1975 Emergency. He also ...

During the Emergency, over 200 journalists were jailed, press was censored, and news agencies merged as Indira Gandhi clamped ...

A 1983 photograph of India’s then-Prime Minister Indira Gandhi.