gandhi, indira

On the day that Maya and her father arrive in India from Canada to bring her mother's ashes to their final resting place, Indira Gandhi is assassinated. In the chaos Maya loses her father and she must trust a young man, Sandeep, to help her find her father.

Describes how Indira Gandhi, intimately involved in Indian political life even from childhood, became prime minister and the first woman to lead her country.

A biography of Indira Gandhi, the first female prime minister of India, discussing her lifelong involvement in Indian politics, and her assassination in 1984.