Indira gandhi bbc interview meghan
Indira gandhi bbc interview meghan
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During the Indira years, the BBC had more influence in India than it has today and no BBC name was more awe-inspiring than Dimbleby.
I spent an hour with Indira Gandhi last week.
She was at her photogenic best, looking confident, well-groomed, and attractive.
She kept a camera-conscious smile all the time, though there were moments when uncomfortable questions were thrown at her and she had to make an effort to look composed.
It was a 1978 television interview with the BBC’s Jonathan Dimbleby — a year after the infamous Emergency during which she and her son Sanjay Gandhi brought India under their dictatorship.
It was clear that Indira agreed to the interview because of the magical aura of the Dimbleby name.
The present generation may be unaware of what that surname meant.
During the Indira years, the BBC had more influence in India than it has today and no BBC name was more awe-inspiring than Dimbleby.
For three generations that name had dominated the glamour associated wit