Emergency 1975  

On the 45th anniversary of Emergency, we must note that times have changed but mindsets have not. Congress continues to harass and hound people with its browbeating tactics.

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.

The declaration of Emergency on June 25, 1975 and the incidents that followed, mark as one of the darkest chapters in India's history, said Rajnath Singh. Emergency was imposed in India till  March 21, 1977.
 

The Congress scion must have forgotten that it was Dinkar’s poems that formed the clarion cry for overthrowing her grandmother Indira Gandhi’s regime