RIP, the Great Iron Lady. You were a big inspiration to me. There would never be anyone like you and late Indra Gandhi. The two Maiden-de-People of mid-80s.
I dont know a lot about Thatcher but when Indira Gandhi's election was overturned by the courts on ground of election fraud she proceeded to suspend elections and civil liberties. I hope that you are correct and we would never see anyone like Indira Gandhi, no nation deserves to be ruled by a tyrant like her.
Right. Most people in the west don't know about The Emergency [1] following the fraud that got her elected. Then her political and social interference with the Sikh community (part of the most vocal opposition to the Emergency [2]), which lead to Operation Bluestar [3] and subsequently her assassination [4].
These events form the worst part of Indian politics since independence. Her rise to power was not due to her personality or skill. She was simply the daughter of Nehru, the first prime minister of India and a close aide of MK Gandhi.
I know Thatcher only from films and articles but Indira Gandhi was no maiden-de-people and if at all she was anything she was a spoil(and neglected) brat with perverted and suppressed sexual traits(since teenage), dictatorial attitude, a misleading/misguiding cabinet(cocoon of shrewd cronies) and a lunatic son who most probably desired to outdo Hitler(died in a plane crash, some say mum got him done).
[In the comparison her daughter-in-law seems so stoic and regal with a clean past, but supposedly(not guilty till proven) too corrupt to...]
She successfully exhibited the second trait, when she was was done for in a fair election, by imposing emergency rule over India - which essentially means what a coup-d'etat does to a democracy.
PS. Thatcher was not born a Baroness. So, she accepted it later it seems. Well, unlike most other parts of world them Brits still love their royals! Good going :-)
