Presenting Indira Lite Malhotra is kinder to his subject in this new biography of Mrs Gandhi

From: India Today | Date: April 8, 2006| Author: Dilip Bobb; Geeta Doctor | Copyright information

INDIRA GANDHI

By Inder malhotra

National Book Trust

Price: Rs 200

Pages: 198

The number of biographies on the late prime minister Indira Gandhi would justify a modest library of its own. That includes the most comprehensive account of her life and times by veteran journalist Inder Malhotra published in 1989. Now, 21 years after her assassination, we have another, by the same author, a much slimmer version with a potted history of her achievements and failures...