On June 25, 1975 the then President Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed, announced a state of emergency in Bharat. This was initiated by the then Prime Minister, Mrs. Indira Gandhi and her grandson is Rahul Rajiv Gandhi, currently Leader of Opposition.
The following short film by Saraswati Films shows how terrible the Emergency period was….
Also read the tweets by PM Modi on this dark period of our nation. He had to disguise himself during the Emergency to evade arrest.
The CONgress and its Yuvraj, plus Mummy Ji tried to say that they were safeguarding the constitution while it’s the same party and the same Yuvraj who have scant regard for it. Do watch this pathetic attempt by RaGa to show as if he cares about the constitution –
Dr. Shashi Tharoor of the same CONgress party was peeved that President Murmu spoke about the Emergency and not about current issues facing the country. Well, Dr. Tharoor professes to be a historian or at least someone who writes about Bharat’s history … he should know, history repeats, if forgotten.
Why do we need a monument to the six million Jews who were killed by Adolf Hitler and why do we need to read about Hitler ? It happened nearly 80 years back. Emergency happened just 49 years back. It’s a more recent history and dark as hell. We must speak about it and children must learn about all that happened during the Emergency so that we never allow it to repeat.
Am posting the speaker Mr. Om Birla’s fiery speech on Emergency and it must be heard by everyone. Also don’t miss the CONteam raising slogans against the speaker !!!! This is the same gene pool that wrote and orchestrated the dark chapter of Emergency ….. and now they want everyone to forget about it.
Opposition leaders were jailed, several activists tortured, forced sterilisation of Muslim men…. yeah and trains ran on time, Mrs. Gandhi was the Queen and RaGa’s uncle Sanjay Gandhi was allegedly running the country. Sure it hurts, but think of the thousands who were hounded, killed and sterilised. 🙄🤬
Speaker of the Lok Sabha, Mr. Om Birla’s speech on the Emergency of 1975 –
#DarkDaysOfEmergency indeed.
Please share this post widely so that this dark period is never ever repeated. Jai Hind. Jai Hind Ki Sena.
It’s hard to know who is who in the continuing drama of world events. I’m only fleetingly aware of India’s historical travails, except what I read or hear in other books and media. I know about PM Modi, partly because you like him. I remember Indira Gandhi, but I’ve only learned in the last few years about the British occupation, the split of Pakistan due to religious enclaves, and similar changes around the world, in different cultures and time frames.
You mention Hitler. Hitler is well known because the Jews have made such a big stir in Europe and other places about his tactics. Here in the US, we struggle with racism and color differences, but few remember that the Europeans displaced the Amerindians to get at their land and other resources.
My point is that human cruelty transcends time, if the rewards or punishments are high enough. Any government is capable of trampling rights they profess to believe in, when power or status is threatened. Bless PM Modi. He appears to be trying to do right by India. He has a lot to contend with, considering struggles with border disputes among hostile neighbors.
Thanks Katharine. I must applaud your understanding of world politics. You are right in saying it’s difficult to separate the good guys from the bad because all of them appear good, till we peel back the several masks they wear 😊.
A simple 2 minute history of India for context – Historically India has an unbroken civilisation of close to 15000 years for which evidence exists. Am sure it’s much longer but let’s not go there. There were large kingdoms as was the case everywhere in the world in the past 3000 years, the more recent history.
Buddha, Mahavira and Jesus’ time on Earth were coincidental. Jesus came after Buddha and Mahavira and many believe Jesus is interred in Kashmir.
If we talk of the CE (2024 years), India and China’s share of the world GDP was 51% around 1600. India’s went up to 24% in 1700 before reducing to 12% in mid 1800. And then the swift fall to 2% when the colonial British left us.
India has been partitioned 7 times – Afghanistan, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Pakistan, Myanmar, Bhutan and Tibet. Pakistan split into two and Bangladesh was born. These partitions are courtesy the Colonial British and you can understand why sometimes I sound bitter about them.
Before the Brits, the Islamic invasions started around 1000 CE. The first attempt was made in the 8th century but was pushed back so effectively that the barbarians didn’t come back for 200 years. In 1200, Delhi got its first Islamic ruler and then the Mughals in 1500s. While the Mughals are spoken of as “great” they were barbaric and the human rights violations were terrible during their period. Temples were razed down, books burnt, 1000s of women taken as concubines, and 1000s of men turned into eunuchs.
So India has seen foreign rule for nearly a 1000 years and Hindus have fought back successfully because we still retain our culture and traditions despite repeated attacks.
The Hindu Genocide is more barbaric and the numbers are staggering, but the fools that we are, we don’t talk about it and hence it’s brushed under the carpet. Do check out this website – https://hindugenocide.com/. The number is close to 400 million Hindus over the centuries who have been raped, killed or forced to convert.
India got its independence in 1947 after Pakistan was cut out. Pakistan was formed as West Pakistan and East Pakistan (the Brits cut Bengal is half). This was land given to the Muslims because they wanted a separate state. I still cannot understand why the Brits decided on this 🤦♀️. Anyway, the partition was bloody. 1 to 2 million people died due to riots. Millions were displaced. Some Muslims stayed back in India and some Hindus stayed back in Pakistan. While the Muslim population of India has grown exponentially to 200 million in Pakistan and Bangladesh the Hindu population has been whittled down.
After Independence India has been run by a single family – Nehru’s family. Nehru was our first Prime Minister, then his daughter Indira Gandhi became the PM (the last name Gandhi has no connection to Mahatma Gandhi). When she was assassinated Rajiv Gandhi, her son became the PM without any experience whatsoever. Now his son Rahul Gandhi is trying to become the PM. The Nehru-Gandhi family has pretty much been a continuation of the British rule with large doses of socialism and appeasement of the minorities. Rahul Gandhi’s mother is Italian and she had aspirations of becoming the PM, which thankfully was averted. She still managed to rule by proxy for ten years when Dr. Manmohan Singh was the PM.
I guess I should simply put this as a blog. 😊. Hope this helps with some context Katharine.
Thank you very much for your explanation. Yes, you should post it as a blog, because I’m sure I’m not the only one who is confused. I keep trying to form a time line in my own head, and I pick up bits of information here and there. That Thailand used to be Siam, or that Myanmar used to be Burma confuses me immensely, becaus history books sometimes use old names that I ca no longer find on maps.
That Adam Smith, a Scott, who wrote “Wealth of Nations,” published in 1776, called China Cochin China or that he justified British foreign occupations via military outposts, led to British jjustification of their military expansion around the world. The so-caled “Opium Wars” in the 1850s were due to British interest in the “China trade” which involved using peasants in India to cultivate opium poppies for the Brits to transport through China for sale of opium in points west.
I could go on and on about how the Brits and Spanish, Atlantic coastal territories, colonized the Western and Southwestern hemispheres, trading African slaves, or displacing original inhabitants, to exploit natural resources and plunder conquered lands. Of course, it’s still going on, but billed under different names.
The Brits aren’t the only ones. As we have noted before, circumstances of drought or famine, trade or war have forced different cultures to mix, mingle, and interbreed. We are all related.