Word: rajiv
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...First Lady. Indira spent 13 months of imprisonment teaching illiterate Indian women how to read. Free again, she and her husband settled in Allahabad and had two boys, Rajiv and Sanjay (now 21 and 19, they are both studying engineering in Britain). The war stopped short of India's borders; Indira abided by Gandhi's slogan: "It's wrong to help the British war effort with men or money...
...duck." The boat moved out to a spot where the muddy brown current of the sacred Ganges is joined by the green water of the Jumna River. Airplanes circled overhead, and one dived down to shower rose petals. Small craft crowded close as Nehru's tall, handsome grandsons, Rajiv and Sanjay Gandhi, lifted the urn. Thousands waded into the river in a frenzy of mourning-one luckless woman ventured too far, was swept away and drowned...