Person in visual 1 started it all off. Person in visual 2 gave it his official blessing. Visual 3 shows a famous response to it. Visual 4 is a work of fiction that is partially concerned with it. Identify all the visuals and the connecting thread.Answer: Justice Jagmohan Lal Sinha (Visual 1) declared Indira Gandhi's election as invalid which led Indira to persuade President Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed (Visual 2) to declare emergency. Visual 3 is the famous blank editorial that Ramnath Goenka published in the Indian Express as a response to the censorship of the press. Rushdie's midnight's children (visual 4) claims the emergency is just a distraction for Indira to destroy the 1001 special midnight's children. Rajesh, Raghu, Schmetterling and Hirak got it. Well done.
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Jagmohanlal Sinha, Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed, censorship of news articles during Emergency & cover of Midnight's Children
Theme - Indian Emergency between 1975 and 1977
Connect : Indian Emergency
Justice Jagmohanlal Sinha invalidated Indira's election
President Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed declared the Emergency
Indian Express published a blank editorial in protest
Salman Rushdie used the Emergency as a backdrop in Midnight's Children.
Justice Jagmohan Lal Sinha (Thanks to Sita for finding out who he was!I struggled) - disqualified Indira Gandhi to be an MP at the Lok Sabha, whereupon she requested President Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed to declare a state of national emergency, which incited the general public; Sulman Rushdie loosely bases his novel Midnight's Children around the partition, post-partitioned India and the 1975 emergency.
Justice Sinha - Fakruddin Ali Ahmed starting the Emergency.
The cover being Midnight's Children. But, to give that as a clue is misleading as Rushdie's book covers all parts of modern Indian history past, well midnight, 1947.
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