50 years of Emergency: ‘Our secret press defied emergency censorship’; underground bulletins, 2.5-month mission & arrest in UP’s Varanasi

During the Emergency in 1975, a secret press network emerged in Allahabad, led by activists like Ramdutt Tripathi. They defied censorship by running an underground publication campaign from hidden locations, using cyclostyle duplicators to produce bulletins. These bulletins countered state propaganda and informed the public about government excesses, until Tripathi’s arrest in 1976.