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- Collection: Media and Emergency: Oral Histories
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Ram Bahadur Rai interview with Sopan Joshi
Seasoned journalist Ram Bahadur Rai was a student leader at the Banaras Hindu University in the years preceding the Emergency, and active with the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad. He was jailed in Varanasi for his involvement in the protests.…
Ram Dutt Tripathi interview with Sopan Joshi
For more than two decades, Ram Dutt Tripathi reported for the BBC World Service from Lucknow. He was active among student leaders during the Emergency and was also imprisoned. An independent journalist now, he lives in Lucknow.
Rashmi Saksena interview with Kai Friese
Rashmi Saksena talks of the Emergency from the perspective of being one of the few women working in journalism at the time.
Saeed Naqvi interview with Kai Friese
Saeed Naqvi gives a close eyewitness account of the various players and actors in key positions during the Emergency
Sanjoy Hazarika interview with Kai Friese
Hazarika talks of his time with Himmat in Bombay and journalism in small presses that were able to resist and survive the injunctions of the government.
Satish Jha Banwari interview with Sopan Joshi
Banwari was a prominent socialist commentator and activist in the early 1970s, when he was teaching Philosophy and Economics in the Delhi University. He is best known for his writing and editing in the magazine Dinmaan and the daily Jansatta, of…
Shashi Shekhar Singh interview with Kai Friese
Shashi Shekhar Singh recollects JNU politics during the time of the Emergency and his arrest for protesting the Emergency
Shravan Garg interview with Sopan Joshi
In the early 1970s, Shravan Garg was part of a small group of journalists who were close associates of Gandhian leader Jaiprakash Narayan. He worked for several Gandhian publications, was part of the team that was involved in the surrender of a group…
Sopan Joshi on Prabhash Joshi interview with Kai Friese
Sopan Joshi talks about his father Prabhash Joshi and journalism in the Indian Express and Jansatta. He also speaks of the resistance of the Gandhians and the JP movement