Jp Movement - Emergency & India's Second Freedom

About the Book: JP Movement-Emergency and India's Second Freedom Loknayak Jayaprakash Narayan was born on 11 October 1902 in Sitabdiara, a village on the border of Uttar Pradesh and Bihar. He married Prabhavati in 1920 but could not have children due to the vow of celibacy taken by her under influence of Mahatma Gandhi. JP was a dreamer and an idealist to a fault. It was Maulana Abul Kalam Azad's fiery oratory and his call to, \"lift up to the skies like leaves before a storm\" that drew JP to the freedom movement. JP wanted to overhaul the entire Indian society. For him, the political system had to be responsive to the aspirations of the poorest of the poor; the glaring in equalities that our economic system breeds had to end; the educational system should be geared to the needs of the nation; the canker of corruption in India's political and administrative system had to be eradicated; the various social ills that afflict our country had to end. This is what he meant by Total Revolution. The country is reminded about JP today as never before. There is hopelessness and despair all around Corruption has become a monster and people want change at all cost. Anna movement has galvanized the nation against corruption but could not translate the support into an organized movement for social change. This book will guide and inspire those who want to become instruments of change. This book is about: The deep-dark period of autocracy (1975-77) in India imposed by a 58-year old Indira Gandhi. Those were months of draconian laws, extinguished freedom, Gestapo type arrests, severe press censorship, forced sterilization, impotency of intellectuals and abject surrender marked by terror of the minions and slavery of the elites that made India a fascist-type police state. The return of the sunlight of democracy due largely to the defiance of a 73-year old Jayaprakash Narayan (JP) popularly called Loknayak, a congenital democrat. Emergency was not merely the defeat of JP and his Move