Gandhi indira biography

Ever since I read the biography of P.N. Haksar, who worked as principal secretary of PM Indira Gandhi for a decade, my desire to read about Indira Gandhi intensified further. Jairam Ramesh's account on P.N. Haksar's was about his intertwined life with Indira Gandhi in her personal grief, governance, diplomatic decisions, major policies, speeches and his fallout with her son Sanjay Gandhi. While two other books which focused on the major events which occurred during Indira Gandhi's tenure was Mark Tully's 'Amritsar: Mrs Gandhi's last battle' and Kuldip Nayar's 'Emergency Retold', which almost covered the patches of India's unstable years of democracy. But this book has been written by someone who is considered to be a very close friend of Mrs. G, who later went on to become the cultural advisor under Indira Gandhi's government.

In this book, Pupul Jayakar presented a charming chronology of Indira Gandhi's sixty six years of life, starting from

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