K.S. MURALIDHAR in Deccan Herald:
“Indira Gandhi was worshiped, abused, feared, loved, ridiculed, idolised, demonised, and eventually, gunned down to death…
“Atal Behari Vajpayee, a Jan Sangh MP in the early 1970s, hailed her as a ‘modern-day Durga‘.
“Unlike today’s leaders (sic), Indira Gandhi was decisive, bold, single-minded, and ‘her own man’. Indeed, she was really destiny’s own child. Love her or hate her, Indira was India.”
Read the full article: Remembering those days when Indira was India
Tags: Indira Gandhi, Leadership
20 November 2007 at 5:44 am
BS.
Indira and her political machinations to a large extent corrupted the political scene in India. From what political commentators of the day had to say, her way of clinging to political power without a care for principles or thought about what standard of people she is bringing into public life has in a way spawned the mutant that is the current day Indian politician.
These strange and corrupt creatures are just taking her quest for power at all costs forward.
20 November 2007 at 7:41 am
I think it is M. F. Hussain who called Indiramma Durga and not ABV.
20 November 2007 at 7:45 am
I can understand Indira’s grip on the nation’s imaginary. The deceptive last name, the dynastic membership, and utter ruthlessness. What is the appeal of Indira’s Italian daughter-in-law? It cannot be true that her Hindi is unbearable and that she is a stranger to English or that she is no smarter than her son. Time we gave her her due.