Indira Gandhi
Why Congress is Essential for India and How it Can Be Revived
Shashi Tharoor
Congress must rejuvenate itself, bringing in fresh faces and young blood into its leadership at all levels. It would help if the party took steps to promote inner-party democracy and a more consultative decision-making style: Open up the party to internal elections for its key positions. Seek the views of a wide cross-section of party stalwarts, not just a favoured few. Allow and encourage the emergence of local, state and regional leaders, ratified by periodic votes of party members
Why Did Indira Gandhi Call for Elections in January 1977?
The author, whose father HY Sharada Prasad was Information advisor to Indira Gandhi, examines the likely reasons why she relaxed the Emergency and called for elections
In Uddhav Thackeray’s Absence
Nobody expects to question the prolonged absence of the chief minister
The Problem with the Illiberal Label
India remains a democracy and has been so except for a brief period when elections were suspended and fundamental rights curbed across the land
Indira Gandhi’s Emergency
The impact has been so profound that it has become a shorthand term for almost anything that is viewed as undemocratic
“One Leader, One Nation”
In her last years in power, even Indira Gandhi was a much diminished figure
14 Days to the Darkest Phase of Indian Democracy
A peek into the crucial events from June 12 to June 26 of 1975, the day Emergency came into force
How Morarji Desai outwitted Jagjivan Ram and Charan Singh
Looking back at the intriguing political deliberations of late March 1977 that saw the rise of the first non-Congress government at the Centre
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