she was asoosiated with events like emergency.which briefly made gerald ford head of the lorge democracy in the world.and decates of militancy in Punjab.

her policy of nationalising banks was mentioned as a reason why indian banking sector wethered the globel financial crisis.

she also won a famous militory victory in the 1971war with pakistan and ordered the phokran inuclear tests three years latter.

going by colomns and telivision discussions around her anniversary.it is safe to say it was contentious.

over her career and beyond she was compared to a ''dumb doll''.the gidess 'durga' a liones and nepolian.

some called her, like margaret tatcher,the only man in her cabbin.

Richard Nickson discribed her as an ''old witch''.

She herself played at being joan of arc as child.

The more enthuastick of her partymen coined the phares''India is Indira&Indira is India''.