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There’s something unique about the Nehrus and the Gandhis; at least the colossus among them — Jawaharlal Nehru and his daughter Indira Gandhi. They sensed the presence of death even when they were alive! Indira Gandhi would talk about death and dying months before she was brutally assassinated by her own bodyguards. As fate would have it, her last speech, a day before her death on 30 October 1984, was: “Even if I died in the service of the nation, I would be proud of it. Every drop of my blood… will contribute to the growth of this nation and...
