Indira Gandhi as I Saw Her

Author: Anser KidwaiPublisher: Global MediaYear: 2005Language: EnglishPages: 220ISBN/UPC (if available): 8188869147 DescriptionThe book is one of the best biographies of the legendary former Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi who was assassinated by her own bodyguards in the year 1984. Indira despite 22 years since her death lives in the hearts of millions of Indians particularly villagers in the country for whom the word India was synonymous with Indira.Twenty years have gone by since Indira Gandhi fell victim to the assassins. Even her sharpest critics have relented and started a reappraisal of India Gandhi’s historic role in keeping the polity from disintegrating and her indelible contribution to making India a strong, stale and self-reliant nation. Politically and socially the country started drifting towards the nadir marked by the rise of mafia politicians and musclemen. The disintegration of the Soviet Union led to the emergence of a unipolar world that, in turn, marked the bir