Fifty years ago, on June 25, India’s Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, citing a threat to internal security, imposed an Emergency on the country. In the 21 months that followed, thousands of opposition ...

Actor Kangana Ranaut invited Priyanka Gandhi Vadra to watch Emergency. The actor stressed the film's dignified portrayal of ...

At midnight on 25 June 1975, India - a young democracy and the world's largest - froze. Then prime minister Indira Gandhi had just declared a nationwide Emergency. Civil liberties were suspended, ...

Did this introspection produce a greater dedication to democracy and the value of equality in the sense that Ambedkar had in ...

The statement comes after Kapoor approached the Delhi High Court this April alleging blatant breach of the agreement ...

In the five decades since Indira Gandhi imposed the Emergency on June 25, 1975, by citing “internal disturbances”, numerous ...

Sugata Srinivasaraju’s The Conscience Network traces how Indian activists abroad resisted Indira Gandhi’s Emergency. A ...

Political prisoners, from Stan Swamy to Anand Teltumbde, expose India’s deepening democratic crisis under Modi. Read how ...

Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi’s 1975 decision to declare an emergency and suspend civil liberties remains one of the most insidious episodes in the country's modern history. The playbook that ...

Debates around similarities and differences between Gandhi’s formal authoritarian rule in 1975-77 and the subtler, informal practices of the Modi era reflect concerns about India's democracy.

BJP MP Nishikant Dubey on Saturday accused former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi of exerting undue influence over a 1977 Indian ...