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V R Raman She was imperious, she was shy; she was called a goongi gudiya but she became Ma Durga; she was the frail teenager who became India’s first political bahubali; she was the dictator who was the daughter of India’s most idealistic constitutional democrat. If Indira Gandhi had beenContinue Reading

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March 5, 1966 is perhaps the least known of many dates of infamy associated with Indira Gandhi. Less than two months into her prime ministership, the ‘Iron Lady of India’ ordered the only airstrike by India on her own citizens. The target: Aizawl and surrounding villages in (then) Assam’s LushaiContinue Reading