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Indira Gandhi
 INDIRA
Gandhi was back in power in 1980 and she had taken oath at the
Rashtrapati Bhavan as Prime Minister. I made an attempt to meet her in
the huge gathering to obtain her autograph on the sketch I had drawn at
the occasion. The then President, Neelam Sanjiva Reddy, was annoyed at
my attempt to meet her. He said, "You have made enough pictures of
her. There is no need for you to meet her." This made it difficult
to go anywhere near her.
However, as chance would
have it, she came close to the place where I was standing and despite
the displeasure of the President, I pulled out the sketch from my
drawing pad and showed it to her. She looked at it for a while and with
a smile signed on it. This happened on January 14, 1980, during her
second term as the Prime Minister of the country.
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