Indira Gandhi
Indira Gandhi
Indira Priyadarshini Gandhi; née Nehru; 19 November 1917 – 31 October 1984) was an Indian politician and central figure of the Indian National Congress party, and to date the only female Prime Minister of India. Indira Gandhi was the only child of India's first Prime Minister, Jawaharlal Nehru. She served as Prime Minister from 1966 to 1977 and then again from 1980 until her assassination in 1984, making her the second-longest-serving Prime Minister after her father...
NationalityIndian
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth19 November 1917
CityAllahabad, India
CountryIndia
Life is a continuous process of adjustment.
Education is a liberating force, and in our age it is also a democratizing force, cutting across the barriers of caste and class, smoothing out inequalities imposed by birth and other circumstances.
Dacca is now the free capital of a free country.
To be liberated, woman must feel free to be herself, not in rivalry to man but in the context of her own capacity and her personality.
Would you consider a man or a woman to be complicated? Is it that difficult to understand both the sexes? We say that we know what the other sex is all about, but is that really true? Perhaps the following witty, funny quotes and sayings can help simplify things down about men.
A nation' s strength ultimately consists in what it can do on its own, and not in what it can borrow from others.
I cannot understand how anyone can be an Indian and not be proud.
To bear many children is considered not only a religious blessing but also an investment. The greater their number, some Indians reason, the more alms they can beg.
The power to question is the basis of all human progress.
Even today to be civilised is held to be synonymous with being westernised. Advanced countries devote large resources to formulating and spreading ideas and doctrines and they tend to impose on the developing nations their own norms and methods. The pattern of the classical acquisitive society with its deliberate multiplication of wants not only is unsuited to conditions in our countries but is positively harmful.
People with clenched fists can not shake hands.
The immediate is often the enemy of the ultimate.
It is our duty to create a social milieu in which the young and the socially weak feel that the present and future belong to them.
All my games were political games; I was, like Joan of Arc, perpetually being burned at the stake.