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ContributePolitical commentator and journalist Kanchan Gupta joins us this week as we discuss the 40th anniversary of the Emergency and the possibility of it coming around again. The team then discusses if the media coverage of Yoga Day went overboard. We also discuss whether the Charleston shooting was an act of terrorism or a hate crime.
For further reading:
– When India was forced to grow up by Salil Tripathi
– What Emergency Meant For Big Business in India by Srinath Raghavan
– What was the Army Doing During the Emergency? by Jaskirat S Bawa
– Mastering the drill of democracy by Gopalkrishna Gandhi
– View from the newsroom by Jawid Laiq
– When you crawl, unasked by Kuldip Nayar
– I was law officer No 3 by Fali S Nariman
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