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Sunil Sethi speaks of his days as a cub reporter and his scoop on the Maruti scandal immediately after the Emergency was lifted

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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.

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Jug Suraiya remembers state censorship and how the censor completely missed irony which is how journalists like him slipped in satirical pieces.

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TN Ninan was a young reporter during the Emergency. He speaks of the politics of business interests in the media and their relationship with the Government.

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Mohini Bhullar worked with India Today which Bengan publication around the same time as the Emergency was declared She handled publicity and ads for the magazine and talks of the journalists she worked with the small but meaningful liberties they…

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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

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Indira Gandhi vists Bihar six months after her defeat in the 1977 election

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Feroz Khan, the director of the Bollywood film 'Qurbani' eulogises Sanjay Gandhi in prose broken tragically into verse form.

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1. THE KILLER FLASH FLOOD: Morvi town in Gujarat is engulfed following a breach in the Machhu Dam II on the upper reaches of the town. Two villages completely wiped out. More than half the number of buildings in Morvi collapsed. Death and devastation…

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