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Two views on India's first woman prime minister Indira Gandhi

Sagarika Ghose's 'Indira: India's Most Powerful Prime Minister' has hit the stands

India’s Indira: A Centennial Tribute
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India’s Indira: A Centennial Tribute

Veenu Sandhu
Indira: India’s Most Powerful Prime Minister
Author: Sagarika Ghose
Publisher: Juggernaut 
Pages: 342
Price: Rs 699

This November 19, Indira Gandhi would have turned 100. Though seemingly down and out, the party she so emphatically formed around her cult is in celebratory mode. Ahead of her birth centenary, three books centred on her have been published already.

First came India’s Indira, largely a puff job by the Indian National Congress (review below). Congress leader Jairam Ramesh’s Indira Gandhi: A Life in Nature followed soon after, drawing attention to Indira, the environmentalist. And now, journalist Sagarika Ghose’s Indira: India’s Most

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