Rajeev Deshpande
Much of Pakistan’s fighter fleet would have struggled to get off the ground if hostilities had further escalated after May 10
The Emergency was a black chapter in India’s post-Independence history which has mercifully not been repeated. The curtailment of Article 352 and the proactive role of the constitutional courts in protecting the ‘basic structure' of the Constitution have prevented political overreach
Marking the 50th anniversary of the imposition of Emergency, Prime Minister Narendra Modi described it as a “dark chapter” (1975-1977) when “the spirit of the Constitution was completely violated.”
My earliest idea of Emergency was this: that my father, who had an arrest warrant under MISA, must not be seen eating lunch in the bedroom
The cartoons of Abu Abraham savaged the pieties and pretences of politics. An exhibition brings back the originality with which he captured an era
How the events of 12 June 1975 launched a political revolution