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Emergency

Their finest hour

Proclaimed as ‘Loknayak’, Jayaprakash Narayan wrote in his prison diary on 22 July 1975, “I had always believed that Mrs Gandhi had no faith in democracy, that she was by inclination and conviction a dictator.”

Emergency declared

Reading books and news reports on the Emergency declared in India on 25 June 1975 invariably gives us goose-bumps. What follows is a range of uncontrollable emotions: of feeling aghast, ashamed, horrified, scared, and then vengefully angry.

No place for violence I

While the importance of a broad-based and strong peace movement with continuity in its functioning is widely realized, what exists in the name of peace movements is much more limited and fragmented.