Prime Minister Indira Gandhi  

Anupam Kher's heartfelt tribute to Satish Kaushik on his death anniversary, reminiscing their friendship

While we all know that it was the then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi who imposed the Emergency, pushing India into the abyss of dictatorship, here, we present a set of her cohort and coterie who assisted her in the imposition but successfully navigated not to come under the net of law 

Emergency is the darkest chapter in India’s independence. It was Prime Minister Indira Gandhi who imposed it after an Allahabad high court ruled against her. In this write up, let’s examine how Indira Gandhi ruled the country with an iron fist, relegating all norms of a dignified leader
 

Let’s look at an interesting case in which former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi was indicted that led to the imposition of emergency.

Rakesh Sharma, the first Indian astronaut in space informed the then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi that India was “Sare Jahan Se Achcha” when she asked him, “How does India look from space?”

In 2019, a controversy erupted after Congress party vehemently opposed Conferring India’s highest civilian award, Bharat Ratna, to one of India’s greatest heroes Veer Savarkar. It was during that time a letter written by former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi referring Veer Savarkar as a ‘remarkable son of India’ surfaced on social media. In a letter dated May 30, 1980, Indira Gandhi wrote to Pandit Bakhle, then secretary of Swatantrayaveer Savarkar Rashtriya Smarak, expressing her reverence for one of India’s greatest freedom fighters Vinayak Damodar Savarkar. Watch this video to find out more about the letter.

Is love possible without freedom? Does politics define the fine lines of a personal love relationship? These question arises when one reads the 18-month correspondence between Madhu Dandavate, a five-time Member of Parliament from the Rajapur constituency of Maharashtra and his wife Pramila, a political activist, who were imprisoned during the Emergency imposed by then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi. Lodged in separate jails — Madhu in Bangalore Central Jail and Pramila in Yerwada Central Jail – they wrote nearly 200 letters to each other during captivity. Let’s find out more about their story in this episode of India Untold with Sunita Iyer.

November 19 marks the birth anniversary of former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi. On this day, Prime Minister Narendra Modi paid tributes to her on Twitter. 
 

A year after former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi was assassinated by her bodyguard, the Special Protection Group (SPG) came to light in 1985.

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It was former prime minister Indira Gandhi who moved five subjects from the state list to concurrent list through the 42nd Amendment Act. Education was one of them.

 

"The central government is making efforts to get justice for the period of injustice which started in 1984. For decades, mothers, sisters, daughters and sons have shed tears, the law will deliver justice, wipe (their) tears," the PM said referring to the riots that took place following the assassination of then prime minister Indira Gandhi

Here is a list of prominent politicians, all from the Congress, accused of leading or inciting mobs to massacre Sikhs following the assassination of then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi in the hands of her guards who happened to be Sikhs