A new book explores Indira Gandhi as an earth warrior.
On March 20, 1977, when Indira Gandhi lost the general elections, she wrote two letters. The first was to the chief minister of Assam, regarding protection of forests. The other was to the ministry of petroleum, regarding protection of the Sunderbans.
“She was amazing. At the most crisis-riddled moments in her life—and there were plenty of them—Indira Gandhi was worrying about the environment,” says former environment minister Jairam Ramesh, a Rajya Sabha member. Ramesh is out with an interesting biography of a woman who has been much written about. It looks at Indira, on her birth centenary, through the prism of environment.
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