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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…
Jug Suraiya interview with Farah Yameen
Jug Suraiya remembers state censorship and how the censor completely missed irony which is how journalists like him slipped in satirical pieces.
Jawaharlal Kaul interview with Sopan Joshi
Jawaharlal Kaul is a highly regarded journalist, having served in senior editorial positions of reputed publications, including Dinmaan and Jansatta, where his role was in handling opinion/editorial sections. He was born in Jammu and Kashmir, and has…
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.…
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.
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.
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.