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INDIRA GANDHI
-Tryst With Power.
by Nayantara Saghal.
………” The shadows in Indira were in part a reflection of the mismatching of her parents. Their marriage, arranged by Motilal Nehru and Kamala’s aunt, was a grievous mistake for these two profoundly dissimilar people.
Kamala’s problems of adaptation, from her orthodox, barely educated background to the liberal, emancipated, westernernied environment of the Nehrus, built up into symptoms of illness, while the bruises of the relationship drove Nehru deeply into himself and strengthened his emotional and intellectual links with his sister.
Since marriages in which the wife was not her husband’s equal in education or opportunity were the rule rather than the exception, the flaw in this one must have resulted from more intractable problems of personality. Ten years older than his wife, Nehru tried and failed to overcome the gulf between them. …………..
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Kamala died in February 1936. Nehru’s dedication of his autobiography – published soon after her death, ‘ To Kamala Who Is No More ‘ – was his deep mourning of a discovery cut short. …..
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On the publication of her mother’s biography in May 1973, Mrs Gandhi said in an interview with its author, that her mother had had the greater influence on her. In her teens she had felt her mother was being wronged by her Father’s family and had fought for her. ‘ I saw her being hurt and I was determined not to be hurt ‘…………..”
( excerpts from the book)
31 October is the death anniversary of Indira Gandhi.
– Joy Kallivayalil.
