Word: daughters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...remember how fascinated you were when you first read the story of Jeanne d'Arc and how your ambition was to be something like her?" wrote Jawaharlal Nehru from a British prison in India to his daughter on her 13th birthday in 1930. "In India today we are making history, and you and I are fortunate to see this happening before our eyes. I cannot say what part will fall to our lot, but whatever it may be, let us remember that we can do nothing that may bring discredit on our cause or dishonour to our people. Goodbye, little...
...grace and hope in a sometimes graceless and hopeless land. Her hands held palm to palm in the traditional Indian greeting of namaste, she approached former Finance Minister Morarji Desai. "Will you bless my success?" she asked. "I give you my blessing," he replied. Then Indira Gandhi, the only daughter of Jawaharlal Nehru, took her seat and waited for the parliamentary members of the ruling Congress Party to elect a Prime Minister to replace Lal Bahadur Shastri, who died in Tashkent two weeks...
Problems Ahead. Thus, into the hands of Nehru's daughter passed the responsibility of guiding the world's second most populous nation. From around the world came congratulatory cables?some 10,000 in all. Pope Paul VI sent his blessing, Soviet Premier Aleksei Kosygin expressed "the Soviet people's deep satisfaction," and Lyndon Johnson sent a warm invitation to keep the date that Shastri had made for a Washington visit?around Feb. 1. Those who wished India well could only rejoice at the smooth transition of power. Though India is a nation of 480 million people speaking 14 major languages...
...Roosevelt? At first, some Westerners gasped in dismay at Mrs. Gandhi's election. They remembered her as the darling of India's left-wingers,the friend of Firebrand Krishna Menon, and the Prime Minister's willful daughter who stamped her sandaled feet and threatened to report hecklers in her audience to her pitaji (daddy). At 48, Indira has largely outgrown that sort of thing. The left-wingers may still be enthusiastic about her, but she is better balanced. Menon seldom comes to call, and Indira keeps her temper reined...
Lessons by Letter. In those turbulent years, her main education came from the letters from her imprisoned father. Ranging over the wide scope of world history, he tried to impress upon his daughter the necessity for selflessness in the service of freedom. Today the collected letters are read in nearly every Indian school, have made Indira a heroine of the revolution to young Indians...