The Emergency as a ‘University of Democracy’ & Indira Gandhi as its unwitting founder-Chancellor

#CutTheClutter #Emergency
45 years ago today, Indira Gandhi imposed Emergency with the intention to crush the opposition's will, but ended up creating a credible, pan-national, pan-ideological cadre of new leaders. In episode 506 of ThePrint's #CutTheClutter, Shekhar Gupta uses Indian political history to explain how the Emergency ended up becoming a 'University of Democracy' and Mrs Gandhi’s jails became 'boot-camps' set for all her and her dynasty’s future adversaries.
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-Read here: https://theprint.in/opinion/at-13-i-joined-the-protest-against-indira-gandhis-emergency-spent-3-months-in-jail/448227/

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