Tag: Indira Gandhi
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Bhavagangamma’s Brigade.
On June 12, 1975, the Allahabad High Court found Indira Gandhi guilty of electoral malpractices, invalidating her election and barring her from holding office for six years. This verdict triggered a political crisis, ultimately leading to the Emergency—a period of suspended civil liberties and press censorship.
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‘Oo Needs Buckshee Press Anyway?
May 3rd heralds the world free press day. The average newspaper, especially of the better sort, has the intelligence of a hillbilly evangelist, the courage of a rat, the fairness of a prohibitionist boob-jumper, the information of a high school janitor, the taste of a designer of celluloid valentines and the honour of a police…
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