The Mute Observer : Beta
Indira Priyadarshini Gandhi or Indira as she is fondly remembered now showed us what female empowerment was all about. She portrayed Durga, Lakshmi and Kali all at once. She was Goddess to some and daughter to others, all in all Indira was a born leader. She brought about the Green Revolution, women empowerment and family planning but the leader that she was didn’t allow her to lose – even if the people’s verdict was different. The avarice got the better of her in the later years as she was accused of note for vote scams, embezzlement of govt. funds for party use and manipulation of electoral votes. As I mentioned in the previous part, Emergency was one dark spot in an otherwise clean democracy of our nation. Indira betrayed us all, our faith and trust. Poetic justice, as it is often referred to, she had to pay for that. On October 31, 1984, two of her bodyguards, Satwant Singh and Beant Singh, killed her to avenge the military attack on the Harmandir Sahib (The Golden...