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When the Emergency was declared on June 25, 1975, Mohan Rajan was a callow 20 years, forced to watch as the father he admired and hardly understood was taken from home and jailed for his outspokenness. In this hard-hitting, very personal memoir, he reveals a little more about K R Sundar Rajan, journalist, activist, father, who was fearless about standing up for his beliefs.... More

Those Special Duties!

Friday, June 24, 2011

When the Emergency was declared in June, 36 years ago, the media suffered grievously. Even government institutions like Doordarshan came under the iron hand of mysterious people called Officers on Special Duty or OSDs. A young journalist at the time, Dr Bharatkumar Raut, now a Shiv Sena member of the Rajya Sabha, looks back and wonders whether another Emergency is at all possible, given how the media landscape itself has changed so much.... More

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