Talk:Indira Gandhi
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The article tends to concentrate almost entirely on her actions against Sikhs. It would be nice to have information about other aspects of her life and time in office. - Kricxjo
Well she is responsibile for it and is the thing that led to her death. She doomed herself. Leading an Attacking on a holy site is like comitting sucide. Imagine what would happen to saudi royal family if they attacked mecca.
Errors?
Nixon never explicitly threatened India with a nuclear strike.Instead he just sent his USS Enterprise as a message and not for a possible strike.Things never went that bad.
Anonymous
Indira Gandhi was born on 19 November but the article states Nov 22 1917 - Oct 31. I am not sure who put that in but I think it needs to be corrected and I am not confident enough to do it. I also do not think the airport was renamed because she died after entering the airport. She was shot near her nome/office by her own bodyguards. The airport was an ambitious project and was renamed in her owner after it was completed. Thank you Ravi
- Correct re the date of birth. I've just changed it in the text (the summary table already had Nov 19). No idea about the airport; leaving that one for someone else. –User:Hajor 21:21, 19 Nov 2003 (UTC)
- The airport was not named because of the above reason. It's the standard ritual in the Congress rule to name most of the things after Indira, Rajiv, Nehru and the Mahatma. Even if the above line of reasoning had not happened, I have no doubt that the naming the airport after her was going to happen. Alren 22:39, 8 Nov 2004 (UTC)
I plan to make "Indira" a disambig page. Indira is also a 1996 Tamil film directed by Suhasini. Jay 12:13, 15 Jan 2004 (UTC)
Could someone please confirm the statement about Mother Teresa endorsing Emergency? A quick google search revealed naught. Just wanna make sure. Gaurav 08:44, 6 Apr 2004 (UTC)
I think the whole Feroz Khan name change to Feroz Gandi is quite fascinating. It would be nice if someone knowledgable could fill in this aspect of Indira's story.
- I have doubts about this Khan thing. Hindu newspaper a more credible source does not say anything. http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/mag/2002/10/20/stories/2002102000110500.htm . But there are a couple of websites with this story http://www.sikhlionz.com/nehrufamily.htm and http://www.vepachedu.org/Nehrudynasty.html , how credible are they that's another issue. I think this issued should be resolved as I saw a couple of sites/forums making arguments based on what's there in wikipedia. Alren 22:39, 8 Nov 2004 (UTC)
The article is inconsistent in the name used to idenitfy Indira Gandhi. Would "Indira" or "Gandhi" be correct? It seems to me that her surname should be used consistently throughout the article. --L. Pistachio 05:47, Oct 31, 2004 (UTC)
- I think, either Indira or Mrs. Gandhi should be used. "Gandhi" by itself would not be appropriate. Alren 22:39, 8 Nov 2004 (UTC)
There's a section at the beginning of the PM section where it states that she did everything to 'reduce' her power. Is that a typo?
Name
Does anyone know why she took the last name Gandhi instead of Nehru? Was it because of marriage or what? I don't know much about Indian history but I am interested to learn and I was surprised that at least a brief comment on this fact wasn't in the article. -Lommer | talk 20:06, 3 Jun 2005 (UTC)
Answer
Members of the Hindu and Muslim ruling families sometimes fall in love with Parsis. The name of the most famous political dynasty in India, Gandhi, is derived not from Mahatma Gandhi, but from a Parsi named Feroze Gandhi, who married the daughter of India's first Prime Minister, Jawaharlal Nehru. Feroze Gandhi's wife, Indira, became Prime Minister.
I think that the fact that she was married to Feroze Gandhi should be mentioned in the article.