The Emergency

There could not have been a more unfortunate time, such people wanted that India should always remain under British and if it does not remain under the British, then India should remain weak, she said

While her film isn't the first on the issue, it remains to be seen whether it will be a path-breaker of sorts or add to heap of banal celluloid art

The authoritarian streak in Indian politics had been growing long before 1975 and its influence may have actually increased, the authors of an authoritative book on this seminal period suggest

If Amitava's early practice was characterised by anger, he has since tempered it with wisdom, yet he remains a chronicler of social wrongs, writes Kishore Singh

This is the problem: a powerful government that believes its anger is right and justified does not need the emergency clause to replicate the Emergency