This book is an outcome of the comments made by the sitting President of India, Shri Pranab Mukherjee, in the chapters on Emergency in his recently Published book - The Dramatic Decades - Indira Gandhi Years. To set the record right; an earnest effort has been made to highlight in the book the atrocities committed on the innocent citizens, who had been detained under MISA and other offences during the dark days of Emergency by Prime Minister Indira Gandhi to perpetuate herself in power by fair or foul means.The generation which was born after 1975 has every right to know the real history of the Emergency days. The book contains 19 chapters and ten annexures. Every chapter and annexure is quite informative and thought provoking.

Content of the Book:

1. Letter addressed to the President of India
2. President Doubts the Integrity of Justice J. C. Shah
3. J. P., the Saviour of Democracy
4. Proclamation of Emergency
5. Press Silenced Censorship Prevailed
6. Torture to MISA Detenus
7. Handcuffing of Advocates
8. The Key Men of Emergency
9. Judges and Judgements
10. Chronological Events of Dark Days
11. What went Wrong with Emergency
12. Nani A. Palkhiwala Speaks out 
13. Narayan's letter from jail to PM
14. JP's Prison Diary
15. Highlights of the Shah Commission Report
16. Misuse of Media
17. Specific Cases of Misuse of Authority
18. Demolitions in Delhi
19. Epilogue

1. General Observations by the Commission
2. My Life and Years in Kashmir Politics
3. Biography of Justice J. C. Shah
4. A Passage from Democracy
5. J.P., Leader of Second Struggle for Freedom of India
6. Extracts of Speeches in Parliament Critical of the Emergency
7. Indira GAndhi's Letters to the Shah Commission
8. Emergency Remembered on its 40th Anniversary
9. Flexing the Muzzle
10. emergency - A Period of Judicial Impotency