NEW DELHI -- On Oct. 31, 1984, two Sikh bodyguards gunned down Prime Minister Indira Gandhi in her garden. In the three harrowing days that followed, more than 3,000 Sikhs were killed by enraged mobs seeking to avenge her death. Eighteen years later, 58 people, most of them Hindu pilgrims, died in an inferno on a train in Gujarat, in western India....
BANGKOK -- ''I am not a woman prime minister,'' Indira Gandhi liked to say during her many years as India's leader. ''I am a prime minister.'' But the question, here in Asia, is whether there really is such a thing as a woman prime minister. More women have reached the pinnacle of power in Asia in recent years than in any other part of the world,...

''ERADICATE poverty!'' As a political slogan it hardly sets the blood racing. In English it sounds both bleakly earnest and, frankly, impossible to accomplish. But in Hindi, the phrase ''Garibi hatao!'' has a powerful historical resonance, and that helps explain why the governing party of India has resurrected it as its latest rallying cry. When...
Indira Gandhi (hindi: इन्दिरा प्रियदर्शिनी गान्धी) (19. november 1917 i Allahabad - 31. oktober 1984) var indisk premierminister. Hun var datter af Jawaharlal Nehru, og blev myrdet den 31. oktober 1984. Hun besøgte Danmark i 1983.
Det var to sikher fra hendes egen livvagt, der myrdede hende. Mordet udløste en blodig klapjagt på sikher i New Delhi og omegn. Mordet var kulminationen på længere tids uroligheder mellem oppositionelle sikher og premierministerens Kongresparti. Hendes søn, den 40-årige Rajiv Gandhi, blev få timer efter mordet udpeget til ny premierminister.