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- Collection: Media and Emergency: Oral Histories
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Nandini Mehta interview with Kai Friese
Nandini Mehta talks about being a woman journalist in a male preserve in the Delhi Statesman
Pamela Philipose interview with Kai Friese
Pamela Philipose talks about the day the Emergency was declared. She also talks of the underground press that was resisting the Emergency by publishing pamphlets.
Prakash Shah interview with Sopan Joshi
Prakash Shah is a Gandhian scholar and journalist in Ahmedabad, from where he brings out a reputed Gujarati journal called Nireekshak. He was active during the Navnirman Andolan in Gujarat in the early 1970s, and in several socio-political efforts…
Prem Shankar Jha interview with Kai Friese
Prem Shankar Jha talks about working in the Times of India and the awkwardness of working with a paper that supported the Emergency.
Qurban Ali interview with Sopan Joshi
Qurban Ali is a seasoned journalist and was, till 2017, with Rajya Sabha TV in an editorial role. A student activist who became a journalist in the aftermath of the Emergency, Ali wrote for the magazines Ravivar and Sunday Observer, joining the BBC…
Raghu Rai interview with Farah Yameen
Raghu Rai describes threats to journalists that were ramapant during the Emergency. He also describes the visuals of the period including his photographs of the time.