The Darkest Hour

If the Emergency was so terrible, why didn’t voters punish Indira Gandhi more severely?

In 1977, Congress got 34.5% of national vote (BJP got 31% in 2014). By 1980, voters had completely forgiven it for the Emergency.

Shoaib Daniyal
· Jul 23, 2015 · 03:30 pm
In media's Emergency analyses, Indira stood as proxy for anxieties about Narendra Modi

Many commentators alluded to a very contemporary situation: the persistence of a personality cult that could perhaps be used to stamp out liberties.

Ajaz Ashraf
· Jul 14, 2015 · 10:30 am
First person: The story behind how Sanjay Gandhi slapped Indira six times at a dinner party

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Lewis M Simons recounts how he got the story and the reaction of Sonia and Rajiv Gandhi when he met them long after the Emergency had been lifted.

Ajaz Ashraf
· Jun 26, 2015 · 01:30 pm

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