The Nehru Gandhi Women

  • The Nehru Gandhi Women

    The Nehru Gandhi Women

    The women of the Nehru Gandhi khaandaan have all been remarkable in their own ways. And after Varun Gandhi's recent wedding with Yamini Rao, there's a new addition in the family.

    Let's take a quick look at these beauties with brains and grit.

  • Kamla Nehru

    Kamla Nehru

    Kamala Nehru, wife of Pt.Jawaharlal Nehru and the mother of Indira Gandhi. Kamala was known as 'the Delhi beauty'. She was deeply sincere, highly patriotic, serous minded and sensitive and a freedom fighter as well as a social reformist.

  • Indira Gandhi

    Indira Gandhi

    Indira Priyadarshini, the iron lady, was the third Prime Minister of the Republic of India for three consecutive terms from 1966 to 1977 and for a fourth term from 1980 until her assassination in 1984, a total of fifteen years. India's only female prime minister to date, she remains the world's longest serving female Prime Minister as of 2011.

  • Sonia Gandhi

    Sonia Gandhi

    The Italian-born daughter-in-law of Mrs.Indira Gandhi and wife of Rajiv Gandhi (who was assassinated in 1991) she agreed to join politics in 1997 and in 1998, she was elected as the leader of the Congress. Since then, she has been the President of the Indian National Congress Party becoming the longest serving President in September 2010. She is one of the most powerful women in the world.

  • Maneka Gandhi

    Maneka Gandhi

    The Indian politician, animal rights activist, environmentalist, former model and widow of Indira Gandhi's younger son, Sanjay Gandhi. She has been a minister in four governments, and has authored a number of books in the areas of etymology, law and animal welfare.

  • Priyanka Gandhi

    Priyanka Gandhi

    Priyanka Gandhi, daughter of Sonia and Rajiv Gandhi, was sometimes talked about as a potential inheritor of the Gandhi political legacy. However she has been very clear that while she does assist her mother and brother, her priorities are clearly with her family including her two children.

  • Yamini Gandhi

    Yamini Gandhi

    Varun Gandhi, Meneka and Sanjay Gandhi's son wed graphic designer Yamini Roy Chowdhury at a temple on the banks of the Ganga on 6th March. Ms. Yamini, who hails from Shantiniketan, West Bengal, has studied in St. Stephen's college, Delhi and in France.