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- Collection: Media and Emergency: Oral Histories
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Tarun Basu interview with Kai Friese
Tarun Basu remembers his time with the UNI. He recalls in detail the day of the declaration of the Emergency and the workings of the press in the early days of its imposition.
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.
Surendra Nihal Singh interview with Kai Friese
Surendra Nihal Singh recalls his time in the Statesman and Indian Express both before and during the Emergency
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.
Coomi Kapoor interview with Kai Friese
Coomi Kapoor talks of the daily newspaper Motherland and the Jan Sangh during the Emergency
Virendra Kapoor interview with Kai Friese
Virender Kapoor gives an emotional account of the Emergency and his incarceration during the period
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.
Uma Vasudev interview with Kai Friese
Uma Vasudev speaks of the Emergency from her vantage point as somebody acquainted with the Gandhi family. She also recalls the early days of India Today
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