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...were tentatively breaking away from traditional lifestyles; it gladdened the hearts of many of the women who had given up the ideas of college education and career, even while hoping that their daughters would someday realize their dreams. My mother did not speak to the daughter of Jawaharlal Nehru, but the brief moment of contact had left a lasting impression in her mind such that she was able to recollect the entire episode to me twenty odd years later, in a voice filled with admiration and pride...
...serve on the 21-member administrative working committee. She did well, organizing charities, making speeches for social-welfare causes and traveling widely on party business. But those efforts would hardly have made her president of the party within four years. Her elevation was partly an honor to Nehru, then at the height of his power, and partly the result of a complex intrigue. Younger officials in the party hoped to use Gandhi as a well-liked figurehead with which to challenge the old-line bosses who traditionally dominated Indian politics...
...past 70, and more than a decade in office, Nehru was becoming increasingly disillusioned and crotchety. Sometimes he snapped at Indira, too, saying "Don't talk nonsense" or telling her to keep quiet. She unfailingly did as he ordered. One night in January 1964, Nehru finished a speech, then suffered a stroke and collapsed in Indira's arms. For more than four months, she not only nursed him but aided him in running the country from his sickbed. When Nehru died of another stroke that May, a dry-eyed Indira supervised every detail of the tumultuous funeral...
Then she collapsed in tears. Almost every time someone spoke to her, she would start crying. Nehru's successor, Lai Bahadur Shastri, wanted her to serve as Foreign Minister, but she wanted no public office at all. Only after ten days of Shastri's pleading did she agree to serve as Minister of Information and Broadcasting, a minor post. After less than two years in office, Shastri suddenly died, and the Congress Party bosses could not agree on a successor. They turned to Mrs. Gandhi as someone who could serve while the struggle for power went...
Dorothy Norman, a New York-based writer and photographer, first met Indira Gandhi, then 31, when she accompanied her father, Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru, to the U.S. in 1949. The two women instantly struck up a friendship that they were to sustain over 35 years in India, the U.S. and while traveling together through Europe. In her book of memoirs, Encounters, to be published by Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Norman recalls her impressions of the Prime Minister's lonely and often sickly daughter and includes several affectionate, heartfelt letters that Indira wrote her during the '50s. Excerpts from those...