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Indira Priyadarshini

A biographical documnetary on Indira Gandhi

1. UNION BUDGET - 1979-80: New Delhi, February 28. Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Mr Charan Singh presents a rural biased budget. Talkie. Various facts and figures presented. Talkie: Mr Ramkrishna Bajaj. Talkie: Farmers. Talkie: Madhu…

Tags: 1979, Budget, Charan Singh, Economy, India, Janata Party, Navy, Sarojini Naidu, Uttar Pradesh

Indian news review 1607

1. CHARAN SINGH THE 5TH PRIME MINISTER: New Delhi, 26th July. President Sanjiva Reddy invites Mr Charan Singh, leader of the Janata Party (Secular) to form an alternative Government. Eight cabinet ministers are sworn in. Mr Charan Singh taking oath…

Tags: 1979, Agriculture, Charan Singh, Floods, India, Janata Party, Meghalaya, Rajasthan, Rat Yatra

Indian news review 1610

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…

Tags: 1979, Charan Singh, flash flood, Gujarat, Independence Day, India, Janata Party

Sri Sanjay Gandhi

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

Tags: Feroz Khan, Qurbani, Sanjay Files, Sanjay Gandhi, Sanjay Gandhi Death

Belchhi: Out from the shadows

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

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

Mohini Bhullar interview with Farah Yameen

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…

Tags: Aroon Purie, B.B. Purie, C.R. Irani, India Today, Khushwant Singh, M.J. Akbar, Madhu Trehan, Maruti, Mohammad Yunus, Ramnath Goenka, Sanjay Gandhi, Uma Vasudev

TN Ninan interview with Farah Yameen

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.

Tags: Anil Aggarwal, B.G. Verghese, Frank Moraes, George Fernandes, Hindustan Times, Hiranmay Karlekar, Indira Gandhi, K.K. Birla, Kuldip Nayar, Prabha Dutt, R. Jagannathan, Sanjay Gandhi

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.

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