She was imperious, she was shy; she was called a goongi gudiya but she became Ma Durga; she was the frail teenager who became India’s first political bahubali; she was the dictator who was the daughter of India’s most idealistic constitutional democrat. If Indira Gandhi had been alive today she would have been 100 years old, a child born in the same year as the Russian revolution whose life was one of storm and trouble. Assassinated by her own Sikh bodyguards, her end was as dramatic as her birth. Born in the fires of a nation about to become independent, she went out in the fiery blaze of a nation at war with itself.
Indira Gandhi was a formidable, complicated woman, Read More
