‘Indira is India’
Pratinav Anil, 23 April 2026
Being underestimated was Indira Gandhi’s chief political asset. Her earliest talent was for invisibility. To the men who surrounded her father, India’s first prime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, she was a gloomy, awkward girl. To the socialist leader Ram Manohar Lohia, who tried and failed to dislodge her Congress Party from power in the 1960s, she was a gungi gudiya, a dumb doll....
