{"id":6399,"date":"2026-06-25T19:40:44","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T14:40:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newskick.in\/?p=6399"},"modified":"2026-06-25T23:53:52","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T18:23:52","slug":"inside-the-emergency-the-mess-that-triggered-indias-darkest-hours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newskick.in\/?p=6399","title":{"rendered":"Inside the Emergency: The \u2018mess\u2019 that triggered India\u2019s darkest hours"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/india\/inside-the-emergency-the-mess-that-triggered-indias-darkest-hours\/articleshow\/131995757.cms\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"10\" align=\"left\" style=\"margin-top:3px;margin-right:5px;\" src=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/photo\/131995757.cms\" \/><\/a>Around fifty years ago, students at a government engineering college in Ahmedabad walked out over a steep hike in their monthly food bill. The cause was parochial; the consequences were not. From an OPEC meeting in Vienna in October 1973 to the midnight broadcast on All India Radio on June 25, 1975, a chain of economic shock, popular fury, political mobilisation, and institutional crisis unfolded without interruption. 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