Chandralekha mehta
Rita dar!
Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit, whose 32nd death anniversary falls today, was a woman of exceptional ability. Hailing from, inarguably, the country’s most distinguished political family, being the sister of Jawaharlal Nehru and daughter of Motilal Nehru, Vijaya Lakshmi’s career was full of many advantages but there was no escaping the disadvantages that accompany a background so visible.
Krishna hutheesing
Had it not been so she may have become the President of India in 1977 when perhaps being Nehru’s sister, or Indira Gandhi’s aunt, became her disqualification.
Born Swarup Kumari Nehru on August 18, 1900, she was eleven years younger than Jawaharlal, the only son of Motilal Nehru.
It was only when she married a Maharashtrian Brahmin settled in Rajkot, Ranjit Pandit, that she adopted the name Vijay Lakshmi that was given by her in-laws as per custom in most Hindu families those days. Vijaya Lakshmi, along with her sister, Krishna was sentenced to one-year rigorous impressments in 1932, the first of her three