
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)
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Jul 20, 2026
The Diaspora’s Fight Against India’s Emergency
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12:16RishwantHOST
So how did you arrive at this particular story? What led you to write a story about this parallel history of resistance?

Sugata Srinivas RajuGUEST
I should say it was very, very accidental because you mean I am a full time writer and a columnist.

Sugata Srinivas RajuGUEST
And I mean, after I stopped running newspapers, so I had to write a column every week.

Sugata Srinivas RajuGUEST
So you're reading something and something triggers and you look up and then you find additional information.
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60:28RishwantHOST
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?