“Indira Gandhi was the first leader to make the PMO all-powerful,” Neerja notes. By the time of Narendra Modi, whose leadership is only briefly touched upon in her book, the PMO emerged as the ...

Conservation & Society, Vol. 7, No. 4 (2009), pp. 299-312 (14 pages) Indira Gandhi’s life (1917–1984) spanned much of the twentieth century. She was Prime Minister of the world’s largest democracy for ...