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Angle of the triangle

A colour cartoon on the importance of Family Planning for healthy children.

Tags: Family Planning, India, Population Control

Anything that will help poor

A 1976 interview with Sanjay Gandhi in Blitz. The piece deifies Sanjay Gandhi as a political visionary and praises the measures taken under the emergency.

Blast

The film `Blast’ subtly tries to draw one’s attention to the need oflimiting the family. It has no commentary.

Tags: Family Planning, India, Population Control

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

Coomi Kapoor interview with Kai Friese

Coomi Kapoor talks of the daily newspaper Motherland and the Jan Sangh during the Emergency

Dilip Bobb interview with Kai Friese

Dilip Bobb recounts the beginnings of India Today

Tags: Aroon Purie, Arun Shourie, Family Planning, Indian Express, Indira Gandhi, Junior Statesman, Lal Krishna Advani, Madhu Trehan, Rajiv Gandhi, Sanjay Gandhi, Sterilisation

This film portrays the role played by a female family planning fieldworker in the family palnning campaign. She has to move from door to door. The central character of this film serves as an ideal example for the new entrants in this field.

Tags: Family Planning, India, Population

Inderjit Badhwar interview with Kai Friese

Inderjit Bhadhwar traces the beginnings and growth of India Today

Tags: ABC, Ajit Bhattacharjee, Arun Jaitley, Arun Louis, Arun Puri, Arun Shourie, Ashok Malik, Bhawan Singh, Chand Joshi, Chandan Mitra, Charlton, Desmond Doig, Dilip Bob, Family Planning, Federal Times, Frank Moraes, George Verghese, H D Deve Gowda, India Today, Indira Gandhi, Jack Anderson, Kamal Nath, Krishna Menon, Kuldip Nayar, Lalit Suri, Lawrence Banter, Madhu Trehan, Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, Mohd. Younus, Montek Singh Ahluwalia, Nandan Kalra, Nehru, Pico Iyer, Prabhu Chawla, Pranay Gupte, Pranoy Roy, Prem Shankar Jha, Pupul Jayakar, Rajiv Gandhi, Ramnath Goenka, Rohit Handa, Ronald Raegan, S.R. Das, Saeed Naqvi, Sanjay Gandhi, Shekhar Gupta, Shobhna Bhatia, Slum Demolition, Sterilisation, Suman Dube, Sumit Mitra, Sunil Sethi, Swaminathan Aiyar, Swapan Dasgupta, Turkman Gate, Uma Vasudev, United States, VC Shukla, Vinod Mehta

Iqbal Malhotra interview with Farah Yameen

Iqbal Mahotra worked as a cub reported during the emergency. He remembers Jayprakash Narain and his movement. He also talks of journalists he knew who went into hiding or those that had to hide their papers fearing a crackdown from the government.

Jawid Laiq interview with Farah Yameen

Jawid Laiq remembers the Emergency and the mood in the small towns of India just before the 1977 election that threw Indra Gandhi out of power

Tags: Amethi, Bansi Lal, Family Planning, George Fernandes, Indian Express, Indira Gandhi, Kuldip Nayar, Lal Krishna Advani, Ramnath Goenka, Rukhsana Sultana, S. Mulgaonkar, Sanjay Gandhi, Slum Demolition, Sterilisation, Swami Dhirendra Bhramachariy

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