COVER STORY
How different are the stories ✤from those days of Emergency compared to the ones now?
Outlook Magazine - 01 October 2024
Emergency The Legacy/The Lunacy
Gandhi’s principal legacy remains the systematic replacement of institutional governance with the viciouꦜs precedents of personalised rule
Bans and arrests then, bans and arrests now. We have come full circle, say political expe⛄rts
In a democracy, no ruler can be granted a carte blanche, like it happened during the Emergency, ಌbut the fact remains that we also learnt some valuable lessons during this p﷽eriod
The midnight knock that doused democracy a𝕴nd the saga of underground resistance
Bhindranwale was able to get away with wrongdoings because ‘in the 🐽eyes of the Con꧟gress leadership in Delhi, Punjab had a Sikh problem since Independence’
Indira Gandhi 🌠is dead and she cannot defend herself. But that doesn’t mean other♎s can’t
For many journalists, 🌌reporting in the volatile decade of the 1970s was both exciting and challenging
Despite being under scrutiny during the Emergency, small journals like Himmat Week🍨ly got 💜around censorship by taking calculated risks
🐟Was the Emergency jꦛust a forerunner of what an authoritarian state could achieve?
Gandhi’s principal lega♑cy remains the systematic replacement of insti𝓡tutional governance with the vicious precedents of personalised rule
Bans and arrests then, ba𝔍ns and arrests now. We have come full circle, sa🧜y political experts
In a democracy, no ruler can be granted a carte blanch🤪e, like it happened during the Emergency, b💖ut the fact remains that we also learnt some valuable lessons during this period
The midnight knock that doused dem🌠ocracy and the saga of underground resistance
Bhindranwale was able to get away with wrongdoings because ‘in the eyes of theꦕ Congress leadership in Delhi, Punjab had a Sikh problem since Independence’
Indira Gandhi is dead a♚nd she c𝔉annot defend herself. But that doesn’t mean others can’t
For many journalists, reporting in the volatile decadღe of the 1970s was both exciting and challenging
Despite being under scrutiny during the Emergency, small journals like Himmat Weekly got ar🅷ound censorship by taking calculated risks
Was the Emergency just a forerunner of what an authoritarian state🍸 could achieve?
OTHER STORIES
Political actors inv🥀oking the Emergency today would do well to remember the inheritance of Independence and the idea of✤ India as a secular democratic republic, says Qurban Ali, son of former freedom fighter and Socialist leader Captain Abbas Ali
Bollywood has churned outꦆ a slew of biopics in the last decade, most of them formulaic. The latest among them, Kangana Ranaut-starrer Emergency, is yet to find a release date
Unlike other constituencies in the region, Kulgam stands outꦏ as a battleground for ideological conflict. The election results, expected on October 8, could lead to either celebration in the CPI 🐈(M) camp or the Jamaat-e-Islami camp
After fighting hard for Olympic glory and protestin💧g against sexual violence, Vinesh Phogat has now st🥂epped into a new role: the politician
The Manipur crisis is a complex, interconnected mess that spill𒀰s across several borders, national and international
A clutch of meditations by writer, translator and literary historian Rakhshanda Jalil on Urdu poetry’s champi🏅oning of inclusivity over hatred
Over the years, people living in villages along the Ganga River in the Malda-Murshidabad region🍎 in West Beng🍎al have faced displacement due to soil erosion
🐎Rita Sinha recollects her experience during Emergency, of her father going into hiding and her mother being arrested
