Indira Gandhi Memorial Museum (Delhi)

Description: 1 Safdarjung Road / near Safdarjung Tomb / Delhi / India / Indira Gandhi Memorial Museum is located in a sprawling yet ... more

Indira Gandhi Memorial Museum (Delhi) ... simple white bungalow where the great leader Mrs. Gandhi lived as prime minister of India. It was here in the gardens of this bungalow that her two bodyguards assassinated her on October 31st 1984. The bungalow was later converted into a memorial museum. Though the museum has limited display but still it has a beautiful collection of photographs covering the Nationalist movement and personal and public life of Nehru-Gandhi family. The collection gives a visual narration of her life from childhood to her last days. Apart from some personal belongings of Mrs. Gandhi, one can also view her still laid out simple drawing room and study room through the large glass. The museum conserves her blood stained sari, which she wore on the day she was assassinated.

Newest Review: ... free and both are filled with interesting exhibits but how can the museum of a man who died peacefully in old age compete with one that shows the blood-stained sari a prime minister was wearing when she was shot in her garden by her trusted Sikh bodyguards? Add to that the chance to see the exact spot where she fell and it's not really a fair competition. If that wasn't enough, you can also ... more

... see the shreds of clothing and bizarrely inappropriate plimsolls of her son Rajiv. These were all that could be recovered after he was blown up by a female suicide bomber in Tamil Nadu. This museum that exhibits a great life, a shocking death (or two) ...more

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Indira Gandhi Memorial Museum (Delhi): Death and Glory - a Memorial to a Remarkable Life (1461 words)
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Indira Gandhi Memorial Granddaughter of one of the early leaders of the Indian National Congress; Daugher of independent India's first Prime Minister; Mother of another Prime Minister; Mother-in-law of an election-winning party leader; Grandmother of a young up-and-coming MP of whom much is expected; Indira Gandhi's place in Indian social and political history would have been ensured even without her own remarkable achievement. Indira was the first - and so far only - woman Prime Minister of the world's largest democracy. Her election in 1966 made her only the second woman to serve as president or prime minister in modern times. So much for the idea that ... Read the complete review