Jacki Lyden talks with Katherine Frank, author of the biography Indira: The Life of Indira Nehru Gandhi. Frank says that behind former Prime Minister Gandhi's authoritarian political presence in India ...
The New York Times: From 1984: Indira Gandhi, Born to Politics, Left Her Own Imprint on India
The dominant figure in Indian politics for nearly two decades, she was elected prime minister four times before being assassinated by her bodyguards. Indira Gandhi in 1963. She served as India’s ...
From 1984: Indira Gandhi, Born to Politics, Left Her Own Imprint on India
MSN: 'Op Blue Star was wrong way, Indira Gandhi paid with life for it': P Chidambaram
Senior Congress leader and former home minister P Chidambaram on Sunday called Operation Blue Star a "mistake", adding former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi ultimately paid the price for it with her ...
'Op Blue Star was wrong way, Indira Gandhi paid with life for it': P Chidambaram
MSN: 'Wonder if he's under pressure': Cong ‘upset’ over Chidambaram's remarks on Blue Star, Indira Gandhi
Leaders of the Congress have expressed discontent about former home minister P Chidambaram’s remarks on the 1984 Operation Blue Star that the military action was wrong and PM Indira Gandhi “paid the ...
'Wonder if he's under pressure': Cong ‘upset’ over Chidambaram's remarks on Blue Star, Indira Gandhi
Indira Gandhi was born in British ruled India as Indira Nehru, into a Kashmiri Pandit family on 19 November 1917 in Allahabad (present-day Prayagraj) in Uttar Pradesh. [14][15] Her father, Jawaharlal Nehru, was a leading figure in the Indian movement for independence from British rule, and became the first Prime Minister of the Dominion (and later Republic) of India. [16] Indira was her ...