One thing led to another until JP gave the call that the battle was between the people who wanted the government accountable and the government which was not willing to come clean. When he found no response, he took the issue to the nation. Her defence was that the Congress had no money even to run the party office. Gandhian Jayaprakash Narayan raised the matter of corruption with the Prime Minister. Nandini Satpathy was elected to the state assembly after spending lakhs of rupees. When he found no response, he took the issu About the Book: Emergency Retold It all started with a by-election in Orissa in 1972.

My condolences.About the Book: Emergency Retold It all started with a by-election in Orissa in 1972. His strong stand against the Emergency, public service and commitment to a better India will always be remembered. Frank and fearless in his views, his work spanned across many decades. In a tweet, he wrote: “Kuldip Nayar was an intellectual giant of our times. Prime Minister Narendra Modi expressed grief over his demise. Nayar had authored 15 books including “Beyond the Lines”, “India after Nehru”, and “Emergency Retold”. In 2015, Nayar was honoured with ‘Lifetime Achievement Award’ for his contribution to journalism at the Ramnath Goenka Excellenceawards. Meera Dewan, a filmmaker, had made a film, In His Inner Voice: Kuldip Nayar for Films Division. Riot victims got some claim, but what about widows and children who were left orphan, nobody even talk about their grievances,” Nayar had said once.Ĭlick here to read a write-up by Nayar in The Statesman.

People were killed, but their families were not given any recognition. He was among the journalists who had staunchly opposed the Emergency, and was jailed under the Maintenance of Internal Security Act (MISA) for leading a protest. Nayar was an Urdu press reporter when the then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi imposed Emergency in 1975. INTERVIEW | Emergency was a curse on India: Kuldip Nayar Apart from The Statesman, Nayar had worked with The Indian Express among other newspapers. Having started his career with an Urdu newspaper, Anjam, Nayar went on to work with a number of news organisations. Nayar was born on August 14, 1923, in Punjab’s Sialkot (now in Pakistan). Nayar had served as the High Commissioner of India to the United Kingdom in 1990. Nayar died around 12.30 am at a private hospital, according to his elder son Sudhir Nayyar. His last rites will be performed at 1 pm today. Nayar, a former Delhi resident editor of The Statesman, was also a well known author and human rights activist. Renowned journalist Kuldip Nayar passed away in a New Delhi hospital on Wednesday night.

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