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From adolescence Sanjay had loved fast cars, and as a very young man he formed a company that developed an Indian minicar that he called the Maruti, after a Hindu wind god. The factory produced a few prototypes of the Maruti but never put it into full production. Sanjay's critics, who dismissed him as arrogant and ruthless, charged that he had received government licenses and financial backing through favoritism and chicanery. Later they blamed him for some of the worst excesses of Mrs. Gandhi's 1975-77 state of emergency, including the sterilization and slum-clearance campaigns...
Until his recent emergence as a public figure, Sanjay Gandhi was best known to Indians as the designer and builder of a mini-auto called the Maruti, named for the son of the Hindu god of wind. In the past, opposition politicians have charged that Sanjay got preferential treatment in getting a license to manufacture the car, which is now in limited production (cost: $2,800) after eight troubled years of development...
...Sanjay began by describing with obvious pride the car he designed from scratch. Later, when he took his guests for a ride, he tactfully inquired, 'Shall I drive fast or slow?' before tearing off on a test-drive performance over the bumpy roads and fields surrounding the Maruti factory. His guests' consensus on the car: noisy but seemingly sturdy." Excerpts from the interview...
...really relaxes is when she is alone with her family. It consists of two sons-Rajiv, 30, an Indian Airlines commander who is married to an Italian and has two children, and Sanjay, 28, also married and an industrialist who has designed and produced an Indian compact car named "Maruti" (Tempest). Both Rajiv and Sanjay are products of Indira's marriage to Parsi Lawyer Feroze Gandni>, who died...