Interview: Katherine Frank talks about her book, "Indira: The Life of Indira Nehru Gandhi

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Interview: Katherine Frank talks about her book, "Indira: The Life of Indira Nehru Gandhi

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Indira Gandhi was the daughter of India's first prime minister and the mother of another one. In between, she was prime minister herself, leading India for a total of 15 years, longer than anyone else. Gandhi was only 12 when her father, Jawaharlal Nehru, drafted India' s Declaration of ...

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