Indira Gandhi

Indi(r)a

The central figure in the dynasty that has captured Congress
Lineage

In 1959, Nehru made his daughter Indira Congress president

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Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi paying homage to former prime minister Indira Gandhi on her 100th birth anniversary at Shakti Sthal in New Delhi.

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BJP veteran LK Advani and Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi exchange greetings after paying tributes to the former prime minister Indira Gandhi on her 100th birth anniversary at...

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Former prime minister Manmohan Singh, BJP veteran LK Advani, Lok Sabha Speaker Sumitra Mahajan, Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi and other leaders after paying tributes to the ...

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Congress President Sonia Gandhi speaks after paying homage to former prime minister Indira Gandhi on her 100th birth anniversary at Indira Gandhi Memorial in New Delhi.

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Congress President Sonia Gandhi, former prime minister Manmohan Singh, party vice-president Rahul Gandhi and JDU leader Sharad Yadav and others while paying homage to former prime ...

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Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi pays homage to former prime minister Indira Gandhi on her 100th birth anniversary, at Indira Gandhi Memorial in New Delhi.

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Congress President Sonia Gandhi pays homage to former prime minister Indira Gandhi on her 100th birth anniversary at Indira Gandhi Memorial in New Delhi.

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Popular And Busy

MGR meets PM Indira Gandhi at New Delhi in 1983 amid the Sri Lankan crisis
Two Sides

Chaudhary Charan Singh (left) was prime minister from July 1979 to January 1980, preceding Indira Gandhi’s (right) return to power
Hope Of Peace

Indira Gandhi and Zulfikar Ali Bhutto sign the Shimla Agreement, 1972
Reined Fist

In 1977 at the Shah Commission, which was constituted to inquire into the excesses during Emergency
Centre Of Gravity

In the midst of Congress ministers as head of the government

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First Year

A 1966 portrait, the year she became the Prime Minister

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Like Dad

With PM and father Jawaharlal Nehru in 1961

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Actress and Congress party leader Nagma during a programme organised as part of the birth centenary celebrations of the former prime minister Indira Gandhi, in Meerut.

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Closest Comforts

We mistook the pair for real—that is Indira and Sanjay Gandhi whispering together in that famous photo. Except that they aren’t the real article—they’re Supriya Vinod a...
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Magazine

Super Toil Across Years Begets Power

India, still a ‘balancing power’, is central to Trump’s NSS. To reap its benefits, we need long work on core interests.

Jan 18, 2018

| Manoj Joshi
Whenever The Hawk Swooped

Religion has seldom been far from the idea of revolution, which contains within it a scope for violence. A three-part study of Sikh history.

Dec 21, 2017

| J.S. Grewal
Fifty Years Of The Rise Of The Right

1967 marked a definite rightward shift with the end of the Congress monopoly over Indian democracy

Oct 26, 2017

| Apoorvanand
Indira: The Print Ages By A Century

From syncretic socialist to outright authoritarian, Indira Gandhi’s political journey changed many courses of the peninsula. She was born in 1917, a hundred years ago.

Oct 25, 2017

| Mahesh Rangarajan
Stars And Stripes With The Tricolour

Ties between India and US, the world’s largest democracies, have seen highs and lows, before showing a steady upswing in the past 20 years.

Jun 30, 2017

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Dark Chapter & Worse

On the 40th anniversary of that 21-month eclipse on Indian democracy, a seasoned journalist tells us what it was like to live through it

Jun 22, 2015

| Coomi Kapoor
Fog Horn

New rows and an old, extreme secrecy by governments mystify Netaji’s legacy

Apr 27, 2015

| Uttam Sengupta
Rajiv’s Girl, Eternally

A dramatised biography of the ‘foreign’ bahu, one the Congress was determined should stay under wraps. It’s out finally.

Jan 26, 2015

| Javier Moro
Delhi Diary

No one has asked the question why the women in the Nehru-Gandhi dynasty make such disastrous marital choices

Dec 08, 2014

| Vinod Mehta
Hands That Modelled The Clay

Nehru laid the foundation for democracy, a self-reliant economy and secularism. Let his legacy not be squandered.

Nov 24, 2014

| Nayantara Sahgal

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‘Emergency, Operation Blue Star; Indira Gandhi’s Two Mistakes’: Natwar Singh

Singh expresses these views in his new book, 'Treasured Epistles', a collection of letters.

Sep 16, 2018

| Outlook Web Bureau
Challenges To Honest Journalism Before, During & After Emergency: A Scribe’s Account

Octogenarian mediaperson P. Raman pens a book sketched by nuggets of self-experienced struggles in the profession, with dashes of humour that colour up his trail down half-a-century of Indian media’s history

Jul 01, 2018

| Sreevalsan Thiyyadi
India Remembers Emergency As A Dark Period: PM Modi

June 25 marks the day when Indira Gandhi had declared a state of Emergency in the country for a 21-month period from 1975 to 1977.

Jun 26, 2018

| Outlook Web Bureau
On Emergency Anniversary, Arun Jaitley Compares Indira Gandhi To Hitler

"They used a republican Constitution to transform democracy into dictatorship," Jaitley writes.

Jun 25, 2018

| Outlook Web Bureau
'The Emergency Revisited': Arun Jaitley Says Constitutional Provisions Were Used To Turn Democracy Into Dictatorship

Jaitley said the years 1971 and 1972 were high points in the political career of Indira Gandhi as she challenged the senior leaders of her own party and a grand alliance of opposition party

Jun 24, 2018

| Outlook Web Bureau
Canada’s New Democrats Leader And Wannabe PM Linked To Pro-Khalistani Sikh Rapper

In one of his songs, Natti says, "Indira Gandhi wanted them (Khalistani militants) to be dead. Eventually, she was the one to be killed.'

Mar 16, 2018

| Outlook Web Bureau
Indira Gandhi Govt Played 'Drama' Of Nationalising Banks To Cover Up Sacking Of Morarji Desai: PM Modi

Modi said despite "sacrificing" Desai, the doors of banks did not open for the poor.

Nov 28, 2017

| Outlook Web Bureau
Indira Gandhi Believed In 'Mann Ki Baat', But Of People: Congress Leader Jairam Ramesh's Dig At Modi

"Gandhi also was a great believer in 'mann ki baat', but her 'mann ki baat' was a listening 'mann ki baat' not a speaking 'mann ki baat'. When she did 'mann ki baat', she listened, she didn't pontificate," said Ramesh.

Nov 26, 2017

| Outlook Web Bureau
Indira Gandhi Fought For Secularism, Opposed Those Dividing India Over Religion: Sonia Gandhi

The former prime minister fought not for her personal ascendancy but for her principles and against vested interests, the Congress president said.

Nov 19, 2017

| Outlook Web Bureau
Why Exclude Those Curious About Faith By Not Allowing Them Into Places Of Worship?

'Jagannath's Pandas famously prohibited Indira Gandhi from entering, though she was born Hindu and was cremated a Hindu'

Sep 27, 2017

| Aakar Patel