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Indira Gandhi

The Ghost of Partition

Swapan Dasgupta

It is time we in India recognised that 50 years after his death, the killers of Mujibur Rahman have launched a civilisational war on India. As in 1971, it is India. As in 1971, it is a battle against those who won’t stop unless they have undermined India's political and cultural foundations

The Lost Nehru Papers

Examines the legal and political storm over the private papers of India’s first prime minister and why they remain at the heart of a battle for legacy and control

The Word of Politics

The Myth of the Socialist Secular Republic

Derailment of Democracy

The declaration of Emergency by Indira Gandhi on June 26, 1975

Remains of the Darkness

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

“Democracy Was Placed Under Arrest”

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.”

A childhood memory of Emergency in our ancestral home in Kannur

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

Indira’s India

Understanding the volatility of her prime ministership

The Unpretentious Bengali

Remembering Sheikh Mujibur Rahman on his 105th birth anniversary when the country he founded is trying to forget him

An Unrepentant American Nationalist

It is both facile and inaccurate to dub Trump a fascist, just as it is a travesty to stick the same label on Israel

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