Indira gandhi bbc interview with oprah

With the 20th anniversary of Indira Gandhi's assassination approaching, there is greater flurry and excitement in India than there was five months ago on the 40th death anniversary of her illustrious father, Jawaharlal Nehru, unquestionably a much greater figure.

Mrs Gandhi with daughter-in-law Sonia in 1977

The reason for this is the extraordinarily high drama, to say nothing of the searing tragedy, in her life.

Derided as a "dumb doll" when she first became prime minister in 1966, she was hailed as an invincible goddess barely four years later when India won a war against Pakistan.

Indira gandhi bbc interview with oprah

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From this Olympian height she plummeted to the abyss of ignominious electoral defeat.

Atal Behari Vajpayee, then foreign minister in the long-forgotten Janata government and more recently prime minister, proclaimed that she had been "consigned to the dustbin of history".

He was wrong. In 30 months flat, Indira was back in power and the Janata was history.

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