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The darkest hour

  • If the Emergency was so terrible, why didn’t voters punish Indira Gandhi more severely?

    Jul 23, 2015 · 03:30 pm
  • In media's Emergency analyses, Indira stood as proxy for anxieties about Narendra Modi

    Jul 14, 2015 · 10:30 am
  • First person: The story behind how Sanjay Gandhi slapped Indira six times at a dinner party

    Jun 26, 2015 · 01:30 pm
  • What drove Sanjay Gandhi and his coterie during the Emergency?

    Jun 26, 2015 · 11:30 am
  • Five hilarious defences from people who insist: 'All India needs is a dictator'

    Jun 25, 2015 · 08:00 pm
  • Five reasons why the BJP loves the Emergency

    Jun 25, 2015 · 12:30 pm
  • What if the Emergency hadn’t happened: would the Jan Sangh still be ‘political untouchables’?

    Jun 25, 2015 · 09:10 am
  • The midnight knock of the Emergency: how Indira Gandhi arrested her opponents

    Jun 25, 2015 · 08:30 am
  • BJP is mythicising its anti-Emergency role ‒ it did not face the brunt: academic DL Sheth

    Jun 24, 2015 · 02:30 pm
  • The Emergency at 40: you know the facts, now read the fiction

    Jun 24, 2015 · 08:30 am
  • 'Himmat' during the Emergency: When the Press crawled, some refused to even bend

    Jun 23, 2015 · 09:05 am
  • How Sanjay Gandhi and his coterie implemented a programme of conveyor-belt sterilisations

    Jun 22, 2015 · 02:30 pm