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- Collection: Media and Emergency: Oral Histories
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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.
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…
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…
Chandan Mitra interview with Farah Yameen
Chandan Mitra was a politically active student in the days of the Emergency. He remembers the mood in the Delhi University campus preceding the declaration of the Emergency
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…