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Constitution Without Conscience? Remembering Emergency, Reimagining Democracy – OpEd

Eurasia Review Tuesday, 24 June 2025 ()
June 25, 2025, commemorates the fiftieth anniversary of one of the most critical and controversial chapters in Indian democracy - the imposition of the National Emergency by then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi. While the Constitution was designed to safeguard civil liberties, that moment saw it turned into an instrument of...
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