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Sugata Srinivas Raju

Sugata Srinivas Raju

Journalist, author, and columnist based in Bangalore; author of "The Conscience Network: A Chronicle of Resistance to a Dictatorship" on the Indian Emergency (1975-77)

Jul 20, 2026

RishwantHOST
12:16
So how did you arrive at this particular story? What led you to write a story about this parallel history of resistance?
12:24
See, that is accidental.
12:25
I should say it was very, very accidental because you mean I am a full time writer and a columnist.
12:31
And I mean, after I stopped running newspapers, so I had to write a column every week.
12:36
I used to write for multiple publications.
12:39
So there is always this pressure on you to find subjects to write.
12:44
So you're reading something and something triggers and you look up and then you find additional information.

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RishwantHOST
60:28
What are their largest strategies, apart from appearing in front of the foreign media to show the message about things that are happening in India and the lectures they were taking and publishing the newspaper Indian Opinion? So what are other strategies that they're using to mobilize the international pressure for the emergency to be removed in India?

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