6/7/2023 0 Comments The emergency by coomi kapoorTo this day, hardly any books have been written, academically or journalistically, about the Emergency. Leading this brigade of shame were people like Khushwant Singh, who more than placed himself at the feet of the Gandhis for this very act alone. To this day, the only things I have heard are how wonderful things were during the emergency how there was discipline for a change. Lal Krishna Advani’s adage – You were asked only to bend, but you crawled – was a tight slap on the face of the pliant journalists, and yet there was no self-introspection ever. Few accounts exist of what had transpired apart from the odd memorial of journalists – it is pathetic to note how our so called doyens of media of the time were hand in glove with the establishment of the time. The amnesia of this country’s conscience is troublesome to say the least. Our youth have no inkling on the events of that horrid night and the subsequent two years of dissent crushing of the worst possible magnitude. There have been no protests by so called liberals against the event. It is as if this event, the darkest episode in the memory of Bharat since its long colonial slavery, never happened. More than 25 years have passed yet, the public memory of the Emergency is conspicuous by its absence. On 25 June 1975, Bharat saw the extension of the external emergency, imposed since 1965 into the domestic affairs of Bharat.
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