Glimpses from the Photograph Exhibition at the Indira Gandhi Memorial Museum
“Indira: A Life Of Courage” brings to fore the charismatic and vulnerable side of the country’s first woman Prime Minister When Ivanka Trump, daughter and advisor to the US President Donald Trump, landed in Hyderabad for the Global Entrepreneurship Summit, memories of another father-daughter combo rushed through the mind. In the ‘50s, media was flushed with images of Jawaharlal Nehru and Indira Gandhi working in tandem. In fact, she was the personal assistant and hostess when Pandit Nehru was the Prime Minister. This bond comes through in an ongoing exhibition of photographs at the Indira Gandhi Memorial Museum. In one of the iconic photographs, we see her with Pandit Nehru at Penang in Malaysia. “She accompanied him when he campaigned there to raise donations, underlining her role in the Freedom Movement,” says Deepthi Sasidharan, who along with Pramod Kumar K.G. of Ekta Research, has curated the exhibition. They have picked 300 images from a collection of 90,000, captur