NEW DELHI: Founding fathers of the Constitution of India fought hard to keep 'Referendum' out of it, but it almost made it to the statute in 1978 in the aftermath of Emergency. The then Janata ...

I write this as India marks the 50th anniversary of the 1975 Emergency, during which the Constitution itself was weaponised to create a dictatorship. My father, Arun Jaitley, took great pride in being ...

Shashi Tharoor's critique of the 1975 Emergency, particularly Sanjay Gandhi's sterilization campaigns, has stirred debate within the Congress party. His article in Deepika highlights the fragility of ...

"People of India punished Indira Gandhi for her decision to impose Emergency. They taught her a lesson, but later forgave her by bringing her back to power. Emergency is an outdated issue. Why rake it ...

Congress MP Shashi Tharoor on Thursday condemned the 1975 Emergency and detailed how citizens' basic freedoms were taken away at the time. He also highlighted in an op-ed titled — Heeding the Lessons ...

Critics of politics often complain that it encourages and promotes the art of self-interest. But one irony of this situation is that political decisions often come back to haunt those who make them, ...

BENGALURU: Former Lokayukta Justice Santosh Hegde here on Friday hoped that Emergency will not be imposed again in India. He was narrating the perils of the draconian law imposed by former prime ...

In the past week, there have been considerable discussions about the emergency declared in 1975—one of the darkest chapters of our democracy. Those of us who lived through it remember the suspension ...