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When Indira Gandhi's Aunt Slammed the Emergency
Brut India
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4/18/2025
It has been 46 years since Indira Gandhi imposed the Emergency in India. In 1977, her aunt Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit had openly condemned her niece's decision...
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I couldn't live at peace with myself.
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For a long time now,
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I have been uneasy.
00:29
I have been distressed,
00:32
and I have not been able to reconcile
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all the views I have held
00:39
these many years of my adult life
00:42
with what was happening in the country today.
00:45
While there were small differences,
00:48
I kept silent.
00:50
Even when I saw
00:52
that the drift of the government
00:54
was going in a direction
00:56
which was painful to me,
00:58
and I thought,
00:59
not in the interest of the country,
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I remained quiet.
01:07
But when the emergency was declared,
01:10
and one by one,
01:12
I saw the manner in which
01:14
the things which are considered essential
01:19
for the life and growth of democracy
01:22
were being suffocated.
01:23
The institutions on which democracy is based
01:26
were being downgraded.
01:28
Then I felt that
01:30
I couldn't live at peace with myself.
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I may have one year to live,
01:34
I may live a few more years.
01:36
But I could not live at peace with myself
01:39
if I did not come out
01:41
and demand that
01:46
the corrosion, erosion,
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whatever you like to call it,
01:50
that was taking place, be stopped.
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