There are politicians and the usual rent-a-mob in India who want Katherine Frank’s Indira: The Life of Indira Nehru Gandhi (HarperCollins; 567 pages) banned. It doesn’t matter that most haven’t read ...
Kangana Ranaut, the Indian actor, filmmaker and member of parliament, is set to release her latest directorial and acting venture “Emergency,” a film that examines one of the most controversial ...
When Indira Gandhi governed India between the 1960s and the 1980s, she was rarely depicted directly in films. If the prime minster was seen, it was mostly as a photograph or portrait in a government ...
A day after Congress leader Rahul Gandhi challenged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to show "even 50 per cent of Indira Gandhi’s courage", External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar hit back in Rajya Sabha ...
Fifty years ago, India was in the early throes of the Emergency, declared by Prime Minister Indira Gandhi on June 25, 1975. A thoroughly Orwellian moment by any standard, the Emergency – the ...
Censorship of newspapers, arrests of journalists and merger of news agencies is how the Indira Gandhi-led government tried to control public discourse during the 21 months of Emergency imposed exactly ...