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“We worked in the dark, cutting stencils by hand to print headlines like ‘How is JP’s health?’ besides publishing accounts of govt excesses,” Tripathi said. Distribution was equally risky.

During the Emergency in 1975, a secret press network emerged in Allahabad, led by activists like Ramdutt Tripathi. They defied censorship by running a ...