Word: nehru
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Though markedly willing to defend Russia internationally, she is an anti-Communist at home; it was at her insistence in 1959 that the government finally voted to dissolve the legally elected Communist government that had ruled Kerala state for 27 months. Her temper and her use of Nehru's magical name sometimes get her into trouble. On the hustings during by-election campaigns last summer, she threw temper tantrums when critical crowds heckled her, threatened on one occasion to report the "barbarians" to Daddy...
Moon herself caused Daddy a major headache on a visit to Moscow last year when she publicly denounced India's agreement to accept a Voice of America transmitter, aggravating a controversy that finally forced Nehru to renege on the deal. But Indira took a strong stand against the Red Chinese invasion and spent days, from dawn to dusk, in airplanes surveying the front...
...Education. India's struggle for nationhood has almost totally absorbed Indira Gandhi's energies. "My public life," she boasts, "began at three." At twelve, she banded other children together in the illegal "monkey brigade," whose task was to sneak political messages past British soldiers. One visitor to Nehru's Allahabad home was gravely informed by his daughter: "I'm sorry, but Papa and Mama and Grandpapa are all in prison...
...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...
Despite her tough mind and tart tongue, Nehru's athletic, teetotaling daughter can brim with feminine charm. She constantly experiments with new hairdos (last week it was short and curly), can often be seen in a crowded New Delhi market munching ecstatically on the spicy Bengali yummy known as chaat. Though not conventionally devout, she always carries in her handbag a pocket edition of India's most sacred scripture, the Bhagavad-Gita. She has always refused to run for Parliament, though she would be an unbeatable candidate, explaining that she considers "the role of mother more important." Nonetheless...