The 1975 Emergency and Its Lessons for Today
NewsClick's Editor-in-Chief Prabir Purkyastha talks about the Emergency, which was imposed by Indira Gandhi on June 25, 1975.
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NewsClick's Editor-in-Chief Prabir Purkyastha talks about the Emergency, which was imposed by Indira Gandhi on June 25, 1975. He talks about how political activists, media persons, and the people as a whole dealt with the attack on their rights, and links the struggles and resistance of those times to the challenges of today. He also talks about the attack on institutions then and now, and contemporary attacks on democracy.

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