The experience of 21st July 1993 came in handy to Mamata Banerjee during the years 2005-2007 when she led mass protests against the CPIM government in Singur and Nandigram.
In the shadow of the 1975 Emergency, when India’s democracy was stripped of its voice, the press stood as both victim and quiet rebel. Amid blank editorials, censorship orders, and mass arrests, journalists and newspapers found subtle yet powerful ways to resist.
This was the decision that threw the country into the fire of emergency on Indira Gandhi's insistence. That is, to reduce one crime, Indira Gandhi thought it better and necessary to commit another crime which was even bigger than that. After this decision of Allahabad High Court which came on June 12, 1975, emergency was imposed on June 25, 1975........