Tag: Emergency
October 9, 2018 /

A narrative of love

September 1, 2018 /

[Emergency Toolbox] Prisoners of Conscience – a film by Anand Patwardhan

An important historical record of a traumatic period in India’s recent political history, PRISONERS OF CONSCIENCE by Anand Patwardhan focuses on the State of Emergency imposed by Indira Gandhi from June 1975 to March 1977. During the Emergency the media was muzzled, over 100,000 people were arrested without charge and imprisoned without trial. But political prisoners existed before the Emergency, and they continue to exist even after it is over.

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August 31, 2018 /

THIS HINDU FASCIST EMERGENCY IS UNLIKE INDIRA’S 1975 EMERGENCY

This Hindu Fascist emergency will never be officially declared; it need not be. Emergency is the constituent aspect of fascist politics. Indira’s formal emergency was a limited response to an unfolding of a crisis, that actually threatened the survival of the Indian State. Modi’s informal emergency is an unlimited reaction to create a crisis against democratization of Indian society, that threatens the survival of the caste system.

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July 4, 2016 /

Remembering the Indian Emergency of 1975-77

The Indian Emergency of 1975-77, time and again, reminds us the fate of democracy and raise questions against the unchecked and unregulated powers of the executive which suspended the very basis of parliamentary democracy -constitutional rights, freedom and rule of law.

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