Indira Gandhi, a prominent Indian politician and the daughter of Jawaharlal Nehru, India's inaugural prime minister, was tragically assassinated by her own bodyguards on Oct. 31, 1984. Born Nov ...

At midnight on 25 June 1975, India - a young democracy and the world's largest - froze. Then prime minister Indira Gandhi had just declared a nationwide Emergency. Civil liberties were suspended ...

NEW DELHI, (IANS) – The origins of the fragile relationship between Jawaharlal Nehru’s sister, Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit, and her niece, Indira Gandhi, which ended with the aunt becoming one of ...

In the adaptation of Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children, British actor Sarita Choudhury played a character heavily modelled on Indira Gandhi, known simply as ‘The Widow’. As described by ...