![]() ![]() He was often away, and her mother was frequently bed-ridden. Her father, Jawaharlal Nehru, led India’s political struggle for independence from British rule, and became the first prime minister of the Dominion (and later Republic) of India. Indira Nehru was born in Allahabad in 1917. Meanwhile, India’s recently elected Bharatiya Janata Party has chosen to downplay Gandhi’s memory on this significant anniversary of her death. ![]() ![]() Tandon, kept a daily diary for nearly two years so as to document a political crisis it reveals a rather unflattering portrait of his boss. There is scant evidence available online that she was a diarist, although one or two sources do refer to a diary. It is 30 years to the day since Indira Gandhi, a major figure in the National Congress Party and India’s third prime minister, was assassinated by her own Sikh bodyguards. ![]()
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