Union Minister for Women and Child Development Maneka Gandhi with her son and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Varun Gandhi arrive to pay tribute to Sanjay Gandhi on his 38th de...
Union Minister for Women and Child Development Maneka Gandhi pays tribute to her husband Sanjay Gandhi on his 38th death anniversary at his memorial in New Delhi.
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...
Women and Child Welfare Minister Maneka Gandhi with her son & BJP MP Varun Gandhi paying tribute to her husband Sanjay Gandhi on his death anniversary at his memorial in New Delhi....
Union Women and Child Welfare Minister Maneka Gandhi with her son & BJP MP Varun Gandhi pay tribute to her husband Sanjay Gandhi on his birth anniversary at his memorial in New Del...
Union Women and Child Welfare Minister Maneka Gandhi pay tribute to her husband Sanjay Gandhi on his birth anniversary at his memorial in New Delhi.
Indira Gandhi with Sanjay
Family photo The Nehru-Gandhis at 1, Safdarjung Road
Indira Gandhi and her son Sanjay Gandhi.
Picture baki hai Sanjay at an Emergency-era meeting, 1976
Springtime in sepia Rahul, Indira Gandhi’s “favourite grandson”, back when the Family was whole
BJP MP Maneka Gandhi along with her son Varun Gandhi paying tributes to her husband the late Sanjay Gandhi on the occasion of his birth anniversary, at his memorial in New Delhi.
Blind spot Indira and Sanjay, circa 1980
Family Portrait The book hasn’t spared Sanjay or Indira’s blindness to his faults
BJP MP Maneka Gandhi along with her son Varun Gandhi pays tribute to her husband the late Sanjay Gandhi on his 31th death anniversary at his memorial in New Delhi.
Sanjay Gandhi ‘A bully and a badmaash’
Indira is all ears to Sanjay at the victory rally in 1980
Where’s my plate Indira with Sonia, Sanjay and Rajiv sitting down for dinner at her residence on 1, Safdarjung Road, New Delhi
Quick, what's common to Hitler, Sanjay Gandhi and Narendra Modi? Small cars! Frivolity apart, while every now and then comparisons between the Gujarat CM and Rajiv Gandhi are sometimes made (when recalling Gujarat 2002, Delhi 1984 is often invoked), here in the third post on Narendra Modi in recent days, Shiv Visvanathan, in the Indian Express, compares Modi to the younger brother, whose son has been making news for all the wrong reasons:
If one reads them without blinders, one realises they are two chapters in the history of liberalisation and globalisation. Sanjay inaugurated the privatisation of the state to which Modi added the corporatisation of the state. For both, concepts and ideology were secondary, mere footnotes to the logic of power. Modi is just a later version of Sanjay, a leader with a PRO. Both knew how to cater to middle class vulnerabilities. In Sanjay’s time order came when trains ran on time and clerks reached office before time. For Modi, the disciplined body of the middle class now reacted to words like security and toughness. Both realised that evil, fascism, tyranny becomes possible if one can play on the insecurities of the middle class.
Shiv Visvanathan also raises the question that has perhaps not been asked often enough by liberal commentators:
One often asks why the Congress in Gujarat is silent about riot victims or development? Why is there a sense of the twining of these parties, both built around the middle class as an abstract imagination?
Read the full article in the Indian Express
