Jinnah reportedly remarked, “Finally! We have someone to rival Mrs. Pandit,” referring to Jawaharlal Nehru’s sister, Vijayalakshmi Pandit, who represented India at the United Nations.

When it takes off with little Indira in her grandfather’s house at Anand Bhavan in 1929 where her early dislike for aunt Vijayalakshmi Pandit is established, and it tracks her until the day she ...

The 299-member Assembly included 15 women, including notable luminaries like Sarojini Naidu, Sucheta Kripalani, and Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit. However, it also featured lesser-known women from various ...

They took on prominent roles in the newly independent democratic country. Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit scaled heights in diplomacy. Amrit Kaur was the first woman to be a Union minister. As health ...

Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit, Sucheta Kripalani, Purnima Banerji, Begum Aizaz Rasul and Kamla Chaudhry were from the United Provinces. Banerji was a steadfast communist and trade union leader.

The Gorkha community were represented by Bahadur Gurung and some of the important women members were Sarojini Naidu, Durgabai Deshmukh, Rajkumari Amrit Kaur and Vijayalakshmi Pandit.

Padma Shri awarded to 30 unsung heroes, including freedom fighters, musicians, and social activists, for their remarkable contributions.

Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit, former Indian Ambassador to the U.S. On the list for the second time: Correspondent Marguerite Higgins. Among those who made it for the first time: Social Worker Katharine ...

Indira’s childhood, we are made to understand, was unhappy as her aunt Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit mistreated her ailing mother Kamala Nehru and that she, as a girl with a strong head, didn’t get ...

Nehru’s sister Vijayalakshmi Pandit was the then ambassador to the US. She made the formal request for 2 million tons of wheat aid to Truman’s secretary of state Dean Acheson. Politically astute ...