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Ravi Visvesvaraya Sharada Prasad

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How Indira Gandhi came to the Emergency decision

Indira Gandhi’s imposition of Emergency on June 25, 1975, ushered in a dark phase in Independent India. Ravi Visvesvaraya Sharada Prasad, whose father HY Sharada Prasad was Information Adviser to Indira Gandhi and whose maternal uncle KS Radhakrishna was the closest aide to her nemesis Jayaprakash Narayan (JP), writes his side of the story of how the Emergency came to be. It was from Radhakrishna’s house that JP was arrested at 2 am on June 26, 1975, and Sharada Prasad was one of the few officials present at the 6 am cabinet meeting at which Indira Gandhi officially declared the Emergency.

26 June 2019, 07:15 IST

How Indira Gandhi came to the Emergency decision

How Indira Gandhi came to the Emergency decision

How Indira Gandhi came to the Emergency decision

26 June 2019, 07:15 IST

How my father saved George Fernandes from being killed

15 June 2019, 08:07 IST

How my father saved George Fernandes from being killed

How my father saved George Fernandes from being killed

How my father saved George Fernandes from being killed

15 June 2019, 08:07 IST

Emergency: Indira’s ‘shock treatment’

June 12 verdict and Emergency

12 June 2019, 07:24 IST

Emergency: Indira’s ‘shock treatment’

Emergency: Indira’s ‘shock treatment’

Emergency: Indira’s ‘shock treatment’

12 June 2019, 07:24 IST