Hindustan Times
I was yet at college when Mrs Indira Gandhi split the Congress to form her own faction of the party. The Congress symbol of cow and calf, which until then had probably been very popular, got permanently frozen. She chose the ‘Hand’ instead. Read more
(4 votes, average: 4.75 out of 5)
Loading ...Posted by Sujata Anandan on Friday, September 4, 2009 at 7:23 pm
Filed under India · Tagged Communist, Congress, cow and calf, Dr Shrikant Jichkar, hammer and sickle, hand, Indian politics, Indira Gandhi, Madhavrao Scindia, ndira Gandhi, OP Jindal, professor, Rajesh Pilot, Rajiv Gandhi, symbol, YS Rajashekhara Reddy
Last week, I wrote about coming face to face with Mrs Indira Gandhi in Assam where my editor had sent me to cover elections in the early Eighties.
I was pitched headlong into the thick of real journalism (and, perhaps, real life as this story will reveal) by my then editor and meeting Mrs Gandhi was a bonus. Read more
(4 votes, average: 4 out of 5) Loading ...Posted by Sujata Anandan on Friday, May 1, 2009 at 7:34 pm
Filed under India · Tagged Assam, Indira Gandhi, New Delhi, Rajesh Pilot
