50 years of Emergency: Have any lessons been learnt?
BJP patriarch LK Advani, then leader of the Jana Sangh party, made a telling comment where he said that people when asked to bend crawled.
JUNE 25-26 hardly creates a ripple in Indian polity anymore, save for a couple of newspaper articles by a dying breed of journalists and politicians who have lived through those tumultuous times. Many among the younger generation got to know about this dark chapter in India's democratic evolution through the eponymous Bollywood film, 'Emergency', starring Kangana Ranaut, panned for its "selective storytelling."