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In a government school classroom in Delhi, young Indira Thapa is set an unusual assignment by her favourite teacher: to write an essay around her name. Who was Indira Privadarshini, the person after whom her grandfather named her? And why her? What is her legacy as India's first-and only-woman prime minister? Over the course of a long, hot summer and a curious friendship with an artist who is working on a biography of Mrs Gandhi, young Indira gets tangled up in the life and times of her memorable namesake. Sometimes by design and sometimes by accident, story after story comes alive-about a childhood spent in Allahabad growing the Vanar Sena, of a youthful romance with the charming Feroze Gandhi, of stints in jail and elephant rides through pouring rain, of a magnificent audacity that catapulted India onto the international stage, and of the final, tragic end that ripped apart the fabric of the nation.

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Devapriya Roy is the author of The Vague Woman’s Handbook, The Weight Loss Club and The Heat and Dust Project: The Broke Couple’s Guide to Bharat, co-written with Saurav Jha. Priya Kuriyan is a book illustrator, comic book artist and animator. A graduate of the National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad, she has directed educational films for the Sesame Street Show (India) and the Children’s Film Society of India (CFSI)

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