The Emergency

Emergency was darkest phase of independent India, won't happen again: Arun Jaitley

It is not possible today for the world's largest democracy to become 'dictatorial', Finance Minister Arun Jaitley has said, while terming the Emergency imposed by the then Congress government in 1975 as the darkest phase of independent India.

Emergency was a surprise, led to an atmosphere of fear: Manmohan in book

The Emergency came as a surprise to former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh who saw an atmosphere of fear in the country during which there were many "arbitrary arrests."

Who's afraid of the big bad Emergency? Bollywood

Hindi cinema, like all other aspects of Indian life, was scarred by the Emergency. Dark days can make for riveting cinema. Then why do our filmmakers have such an Emergency-phobia? Did history end in 1947?

Gilani's aircraft makes emergency landing

The aircraft returned to Chaklala airbase shortly after take-off and made an emergency landing as it had developed technical problems.

Who said no good ever came of the Emergency? Jug Suraiya remembers

When Mrs Gandhi imposed the Emergency, Jug Suraiya was not yet one of India's best known columnists. A young reporter in Calcutta, he got a first-hand taste of what it was like to wait for that midnight knock. Except he just kept waiting. It never came.