All said and done, I still believed that India has not had its encounter with a more dynamic prime minister than Indira Priyadarshini Gandhi, minus the emergency aberration, which I liked to believe, was hastened by a spate of extra-democratic agitations of her political opponents, some of whom were suspected to have been inspired by outside forces. A person of complex character as Indira was could not be judged by her follies alone. India needed her at that glorious and inglorious moment of history. Oh! What a history it was to live with! I had closer encounter with her in her worse days and
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