India today is not the India of 1975: Shashi Tharoor lambasts ‘Emergency’, warns against power centralisation

Senior Congress leader and Member of Parliament (MP) from Thiruvananthapuram, Shashi Tharoor, has called for a deeper understanding of the Emergency imposed between June 25, 1975, and March 21, 1977. Writing in Malayalam daily Deepika, Tharoor said the Emergency should not merely be remembered as a grim episode in Indian history but as a cautionary tale with lasting lessons for democracy.

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