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- Indira Priyadarshini Gandhi was a prominent Indian politician and member of the Indian National Congress.
- She became the first and only female prime minister of India.
- She is known as the ‘Iron lady of India’.
- She was an inspiration to all women in India and the world.
- Her leadership was considered an icon by crores of people in India.
- She was born in a Kashmiri Pandit family on 19 November 1917 in Allahabad.
- Her father, Jawaharlal Nehru, was a leading figure in the movement for independence.
- She left to the abode of heaven at the age of 66 on 31 October 1984.
- The kind of woman she was may not be born again.
- She was a woman who dominated not only Indian politics but the whole world.