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...research, he could draw on the four cover stories TIME has done on Mrs. Gandhi (two of which ran in the international editions) and the six on her father Jawaharlal Nehru, India's first Prime Minister, from independence...
Another contributor to the cover story was New York Correspondent Marcia Gauger, who had just completed a five-week visit to India, where she had served as New Delhi bureau chief from 1979 to 1982. Gauger met Mrs. Gandhi in 1979, when "Madamji," as she was known, was out of power. "I traveled with her on the comeback campaign trail and got to know another side of her," says Gauger. "I greatly admired her courage and her extraordinary ability to communicate with the Indian people...
...last Wednesday morning, Indira Gandhi folded her hands in front of her face, looked at the two guards standing along the path to her office and said, "Namaste." It was to be her last word. Within hours India would be plunged into one of its worst paroxysms of sectarian violence since partition in 1947. As the death toll passed the 1,000 mark, the dominant question was whether the country's new leader, Indira's inexperienced son Rajiv, could, over the long term, sustain the integrity of the ambitious political patchwork that against all odds binds 746 million ethnically...
...Rajiv, her daughter-in-law Sonia and their two children, Rahul and Priyanka. Rajiv was off on a political trip to the state of West Bengal, preparing the ruling Congress (I) Party for national elections that are due to be held by mid-January 1985. As Mrs. Gandhi's sole surviving son, Rajiv, 40, was also the heir apparent to the House of Nehru and the leadership of India. But at 66, Indira Gandhi was in fine health and ebullient spirits as she prepared to seek a fifth term as Prime Minister of the world's most populous democracy...
Pakistan does not pose the threat to India's security that it did before the 1971 war. But war jitters still break out sporadically. Furthermore, the Pakistanis are reportedly well along on their efforts to produce their own nuclear weapon. Echoing his mother's anger, Rajiv Gandhi said a few weeks ago that he expected war between India and Pakistan before the end of the year. He could do much to avert the threat of such a war by allowing a resumption of the talks with Pakistan that India called off in July...