Sagarika Ghose decodes Indira Gandhi, the Prime Minister, the daughter and the mother in this interview with Shoma Chaudhury at Algebra, The Arts & Ideas Club – Gurgaon on 9th July 2017. Sagarika Ghose believes that Indira Gandhi wrote the rules of modern Indian politics.
Right from Mamata Banerjee to Narendra Modi, Ghose believes that everybody is playing by the Indira Gandhi playbook. Ghose also discusses Indira Gandhi’s poor relationship with Nehru, her overprotectiveness of Sanjay Gandhi, and how she destroyed every leader in the Congress party to take centre stage.