on topics like what they wanted to be, “… whether it was the president of India, prime minister … or chief minister of a state.” Following each of her children’s speeches, she would cast her vote for the winner, the reward being a small piece of chocolate. Perhaps these were simple childhood games to them at the time, but today Indra recognizes the role they played in slowly building her confidence and understandably refers to her mother as one of her “greatest role models”.
