Sandeep Balakrishna
VK Krishna Menon’s victory in the 1962 North Bombay election resulted in India’s military defeat later that year. It is a warning for Parliament and government today
It is both facile and inaccurate to dub Trump a fascist, just as it is a travesty to stick the same label on Israel
How the events of 12 June 1975 launched a political revolution
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