At midnight on 25 June 1975, India - a young democracy and the world's largest - froze. Then prime minister Indira Gandhi had just declared a nationwide Emergency. Civil liberties were suspended, ...

After the Emergency and the 1977 elections, the Janata Party government sent the CBI to arrest former PM and Congress leader ...

Indira Gandhi bided her time as the Janata leaders squabbled. She stormed back in 1980 before the bloody end of her ...

Taking Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores out of their Caracas home in the middle of the night and ...

Debates around similarities and differences between Gandhi’s formal authoritarian rule in 1975-77 and the subtler, informal practices of the Modi era reflect concerns about India's democracy.

Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi’s 1975 decision to declare an emergency and suspend civil liberties remains one of the most insidious episodes in the country's modern history. The playbook that ...

A legend that sprang up after the Turkman Gate killing is that when the shrine is disturbed, the government will fall, as it ...

Indira Gandhi’s brief visit to Venezuela reveals how India once sought common cause with Latin America’s post-colonial ...