Word: gandhis
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Into the Ganges. Though Nehru's will had specifically requested no religious ceremonies after his death (Nehru was an avowed agnostic), his daughter Indira Gandhi had ordered the funeral performed with full Hindu religious customs and traditions. Nehru also had asked that a handful of his ashes be thrown into the holy Ganges River at Allahabad, his birthplace, not for religious reasons but because "the Ganges especially is the river of India, beloved of her people . . . running into the present and flowing on to the great ocean of the future." The remainder of his ashes, according to Nehru...
...office Shastri would immediately have to start thinking about the hard business of running a government. As he huddled with advisers on the makeup of his new Cabinet, it seemed likely that the Foreign Ministry might go to Indira Gandhi, while the defeated Desai was almost certain to be offered a portfolio, even if not the top one he demands. Another likely minister: S. K. Patil...
...supposed brilliance, although he cared enough about an education to walk eight miles a day to school, sometimes taking a short cut by swimming the Ganges River, carefully strapping his books to his head before entering the water. He made his first total commitment at 16, when Mahatma Gandhi spoke to students in Benares. From Gandhi, says Shastri, "I learned of the moral aspect of life-to serve your country without love of power and authority, if possible." To fight for freedom, the lad quit high school three months before he was due to graduate, and, in all, was arrested...
Clad in a white sari, Indira Gandhi sat weeping on the floor beside her dead father's bed. He lay stretched out under a sheet, two crossed lotus blossoms resting above his head. Later, the body was moved to the doorway of the Prime Minister's white-walled house as a line of weeping, shouting mourners two miles long formed to offer final tribute to Jawaharlal Nehru...
Oxford-educated Indira (she studied history) was a disciple of Gandhi, worked as a girl among untouchables in city slums, joined the embattled Congress Party. In 1942, she defied her Brahman father by marrying an obscure Parsi lawyer named Feroze Gandhi (no kin to the Mahatma), with him was jailed by the British for 13 months on charges of subversion. She spent her prison term teaching illiterate convicts. After five years and two sons, she left Feroze to return to Nehru's rambling mansion in New Delhi; her husband died...