Emergency ka Kahar aur Censor ka Zahar (Hindi Edition)

The pages of this book detail the dark deeds and misdeeds committed during the Emergency. The Emergency is a period in our countrys history whose stain has not been washed away even by the passage of time. During this period, almost all prominent opposition leaders and thousands of citizens were imprisoned without trial. Among them were approximately 250 journalists. People faced numerous excesses and police brutality.Strict censorship was imposed on newspaper news. This proved to be the Emergencys ultimate weapon. What the British had failed to do, Indira Gandhis government accomplished. Ironically, nearly four and a half decades later, todays generation cannot believe that such a coup against peoples freedoms took place in democratic India, forcing those who opposed it to call it the Second War of Independence.The dark chapter of the Emergency is a subject that, like the Partition of the country, deserves numerous books. In the view of independent political analysts, it is the most significant event of independent India. The story of how peoples power brought democracy back on track is especially worth reading for those born after that event. The detailed analysis of Platos world-famous treatise The Republic makes it clear that the greatest threat to a republic comes from within, not from without. A republic always degenerates from its own contagion.