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| | INDIRA: The Life of Indira Nehru Gandhi |
 | | And when Indira’s arrival in the world was announced by a monosyllable ‘Hua’ (it happened) to Motilal, her grandfather, and J. Nehru, ‘an unmistakable wave of deflation and disappointment swept through the crowd on the veranda.’ Overshadowed quite early by her great aunt, inconspicuous in childhood, she was not an important family member. |
 | | Kamala Nehru, her mother was a frail, sickly woman who was sneered at by Indira’s superior and bullying ‘phupphis’ – the paternal aunts- while Jawaharlal Nehru, the father, was largely an absence, away either campaigning for the Indian National Congress, or incarcerated in jail. |
 | | When Kamala, her mother, was in jail, she wrote to Jawaharlal that their daughter had promised to look after herself. |
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