In a different mould Feroze Gandhi with a young Rajiv Gandhi, after seeing off Jawaharlal Nehru and Indira Gandhi at Palam airport in Delhi. With him are Vijayalakshmi Pandit’s daughters Rita (left) and Chandralekha.
Bird’s eye view The Congress devastated in the assembly elections, party chief Sonia Gandhi seems to be searching for words of inspiration, for herself and her flock. “It does call for deep introspection. We have to understand...the many reasons for this defeat.” Sonia Gandhi, Congress chief, after the assembly elections rout
Robert Vadra, Businessman
Sonia Gandhi, Congress party president
Small-time brassware dealer is now big businessman with major realty interests
Subramanian Swamy vs Gandhis The Janata Party chief has told the world everything he knows about the Gandhi parivar, including the sweet deal the first family got from the AICC for Herald House. AICC confessed, but said it was a decision tinged in nostalgia. Rahul Gandhi threatened to sue for defamation. Swamy threatened to sue him right back. As yet, neither has shown the stomach for a fight.
Senior Haryana IAS officer Ashok Khemka, who was removed as Inspector General of Registration in the wake of his ordering a probe into all the land dealings of Congress President Sonia Gandhi's son-in-law Robert Vadra, in four districts of Haryana, has hit back at the government saying it was "grossly unfair to punish him for being upright and exposing the scams".
Match point Son-in-law of a PM, husband of another and father of a third, Feroze with Indira at their wedding
Springtime in sepia Rahul, Indira Gandhi’s “favourite grandson”, back when the Family was whole
It’s All In The Blood Whatever your impression of his understanding of realpolitik, fault-finding Rahul Gandhi’s grasp of his dynastic allure is a futile exercise. This photo-op at the Rajiv Gandhi Foundation’s dole-out of tri-wheelers to the physically disabled is further proof of such.
Senior Congress leader Hanumant Rao along with supporters perform 'Hawan' for the speedy recovery of the party President Sonia Gandhi in New Delhi.
A delegation from 'Indian Congress Party USA' visiting, the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Centre in New York where they believe Congress President Sonia Gandhi had been admitted, to wish her a speedy recovery on Aug 7. The members are seen outside the hospital entrance.
Solace In The Shadow Sonia Gandhi had all the lines down pat—“Indira Gandhi was a Bengali at heart”—while accepting Bangladesh’s highest award for mom-in-law. But then, she’s had a whole career to practise.
Gandhi saw the family as the root of all social ills: Kasturba with her three sons and nephew soon after their arrival in South Africa in 1903.
Where’s my plate Indira with Sonia, Sanjay and Rajiv sitting down for dinner at her residence on 1, Safdarjung Road, New Delhi
Indira Gandhi with Varun Gandhi, Rajiv, Sonia, Rahu, Priyanka at Sanjay Gandhi's first death anniversary.
UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi accompanied by her son Rahul Gandhi, son-in-law Robert Vadra and daughter Priyanka Vadra after paying tributes to former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi on his death anniversary, at Vir Bhumi in New Delhi.
Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi, his sister Priyanka Vadra and her husband Robert Vadra, pay tributes to former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi on his death anniversary, at Vir Bhumi in New Delhi. Gandhi was assassinated by a suspected Tamil Tiger female suicide bomber in 1991 at an election rally in southern India in apparent revenge for sending a peacekeeping force to Sri Lanka in 1987.
Saturday 17 SeptemberA recent book has caused ripples in the politucal circles since extracts from it were first published in the Times of London on Saturday. The Mitrokhin Archive, Volume II: The KGB and the World alleges: "It seemed like the entire country [India] was for sale; the KGB — and the CIA — had penetrated the Indian government. " The KGB was more successful than the CIA, partly " because of its skill in exploiting the corruption that became endemic under Indira Gandhi’s regime. Suitcases full of banknotes were said to be routinely taken to her house and one of her opponents claimed that Mrs Gandhi did not even return the cases." The influence peaked at the time of the Bangladesh crisis and the book has some rather interesting accounts of how among the most time-consuming activities of the KGB in India was the preparation for Brezhnev’s state visit in 1973 and how they had to ensure that he was received with what appeared to be rapturous enthusiasm.Given that he was such a dreary orator, it was no easy task.
Sonia Gandhi-- Rajiv Gandhi
It was a love affair that cut across nationalities—she from Italy, he from India. They met as students in England in 1964, fell in love and were married in 1969. For a long while they lived away from the public glare—he an airline pilot, she a housewife. When he joined politics, she was beside him—reluctantly. When he was assassinated, she stayed on to lay claim to the Nehru-Gandhi legacy.
Raghu Rai
"It is said that she was ‘the only man in her Cabinet’, and how powerful Indira Gandhi was can be gauged from this photograph shot in 1970, during a meeting with her MLAs from Gujarat."
