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“You've never been very generous, you Westerners, toward us Indians. You should have seen that things were changing, albeit slowly. You should have seen that something was happening. Not much, but something.”

Quote by Indira Gandhi

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Indira Gandhi, born on November 19, 1917, and died on October 31, 1984, was the first female Prime Minister of India and one of the longest-serving Prime Ministers in Indian history. more

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