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By Avatans Kumar On Tuesday, March 21st, 2017
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लोकनायक जय प्रकाश नारायण

मन में बड़ी ललक थी।  साल भर बाद अपनी पत्नी और बिटिया के साथ पुनः अपनी जन्म-भूमि पटना More...

By Amrit Hallan On Saturday, December 19th, 2015
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Will Sonia Gandhi be able to Ride the Sympathy Wave if she is Jailed?

Many are of the opinion that if the Narendra Modi government takes a tough stand against the various scams carried out by Sonia Gandhi and her henchmen and women, and if somehow she ends up in jail, she will ride More...

By Shwetank Bhushan On Monday, October 19th, 2015
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The Narrative is Churning Away from Pseudo Secularism

This article was co-authored with Rajneesh. An unfortunate Indian got lynched at Dadri recently. However, more unfortunately for the nation, the media embarked on a lynching of its own making, and it does not seem More...

By Gautam Sen On Friday, June 26th, 2015
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Lessons of the Indian Emergency

The history of India’s twenty one month Emergency is too well known to need detailed recounting. It began in June 1975, suspending civil liberties and allowed the government to rule by decree. In fact it ushered More...

By IndiaFacts Staff On Friday, June 26th, 2015
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Three Heroes of Emergency

The final hours of 25 June were detrimental for our country as the then PM Indira Gandhi decided that it was better to put our sacred democracy in comatose than fighting honourably. As we mourn the momentary demise More...

By Shwetank Bhushan On Thursday, June 25th, 2015
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Never Forget the Darkness: Emergency @ 40

India’s strength has always been its vibrant democracy. Ours is perhaps the only country where people from contrastingly different castes, creed, religion and race live together in peace and harmony. The Crime More...

By Poulasta Chakraborthy On Thursday, June 25th, 2015
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Emergency @ 40: A Dictator removes two elected Chief Ministers

‘Once a dictator always a dictator’ can be said to be a truism suitable for the late former Prime Minister of India Smt Indira Gandhi. Like any leader, she had her highs and lows, more lows to be fair. Among More...

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By Ravi Shanker Kapoor On Monday, June 30th, 2014
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Time to shed Emergency legacy

Information & Broadcasting Minister Prakash Javadekar has rightly highlighted the “Emergency mindset” of the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government. The mindset vilifies anything that More...