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...waning moments of a blistering hot New Delhi afternoon, the elder son of India's Prime Minister Indira Gandhi performed the ancient Vedic rites for the dead. Rajiv Gandhi, 35, put the torch to the funeral pyre that held the battered body of his younger brother Sanjay, who had died in an air crash the day before. The ceremony, attended by hundreds of thousands of mourners, brought a sudden and tragic end to the Gandhi family's dynastic hopes that Sanjay, 33, would eventually succeed his mother as Prime Minister of India...
...have been worried last fall about the sterilization backlash and other bureaucratic tyrannies in North India. But in November Sanjay made a whirlwind tour of Uttar Pradesh and was greeted by the usual crowds-supplied, of course, by the local authorities. Similarly, when Sanjay and his elder brother Rajiv visited a community of resettled slumdwellers, they were given a tumultuous welcome-as ordered by party officials. Mrs. Gandhi, deprived of a free press and served by an ever narrowing circle of trusted advisers, apparently had come to believe her own propaganda. The election she was sure she would win became...
...other son, Rajiv, 31, is a pilot for India Airlines, the country's domestic carrier. Mrs. Gandhi's husband, Feroze Gandhi, a newspaper editor and Member of Parliament, died...
...educated in England. Like him also, she has little interest in small talk, suffers fools poorly, and governs imperiously-although she tends to delegate more business than he did. About the only time she 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...
...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...