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Mother Teresa

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  Mother Teresa , in full   St. Teresa of Calcutta , also called   St. Mother Teresa , original name   Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu , (baptized August 27, 1910,   Skopje ,  Macedonia,   Ottoman Empire   [now in Republic of North Macedonia]—died September 5, 1997, Calcutta [now Kolkata], India; canonized September 4, 2016; feast day September 5), founder of the   Order of the Missionaries of Charity , a   Roman Catholic   congregation of women dedicated to the poor, particularly to the   destitute   of   India . She was the recipient of numerous honours, including the 1979   Nobel Prize   for Peace. The daughter of an ethnic Albanian grocer, she went to Ireland in 1928 to join the Sisters of Loreto at the Institute of the  Blessed Virgin Mary  and sailed only six weeks later to India as a teacher. She taught for 17 years at the order’s school in Calcutta ( Kolkata ). ❤❤❤❤❤ In 1946 Sister Teresa experienced...

*****Rajiv Gandhi*****

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❤❤❤❤❤   Rajiv Ratna Gandhi  (20 August 1944 – 21 May 1991), the elder son of Indira Nehru and Feroze Gandhi, was the 7th Prime Minister of India from his mother's death on 31 October 1984 until his resignation on 2 December 1989 following a general election defeat. He became the youngest Prime Minister of India when he took office (at the age of 40). Rajiv Gandhi was a professional pilot for Indian Airlines before entering politics. While at Cambridge, he met Italian-born Sonia Gandhi whom he later married. He remained aloof from politics despite his mother being the Indian Prime Minister, and it was only following the death of his younger brother Sanjay Gandhi in 1980 that Rajiv entered politics. After the assassination of his mother in 1984 after Operation Blue Star, Indian National Congress party leaders nominated him to be Prime Minister. Rajiv Gandhi led the Congress to a major election victory in 1984 soon after, amassing the largest majority ever in Indian Parliament. T...

Indra Gandhi

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  Indira Gandhi, born on 19th November 1917 in Uttar Pradesh, was the daughter of the former and the first Prime Minister of India, Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru. Indira Gandhi, during her childhood, was one of the brightest and most intelligent students in the school. She was considered to have taken up leadership roles right from school and college days. And the things she learnt as a kid helped grow as one of the greatest leaders the world has ever seen. After the untimely death of former Prime Minister of India, Lal Bahadhur Shastri, Indira Gandhi took the responsibility of running the country as the third Prime Minister of India on 24th January 1966. Having born in a family of freedom fighters and seasoned politicians, the political game of Mrs Indira Gandhi was strong as ever. Before becoming the Prime Minister, she was Information and Broadcasting minister as well. Her tenure as Prime Minister of India was filled with ups and downs. It was under her visionary leadership that India...

Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru*******

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PANDIT JAWAHARLAL NEHRU INDIA'S FIRST AND LONGEST SERVING PRIME MINISTER, PANDIT JAWAHARLAL NEHRU, WAS A MAN OF VISION. HAVING PARTICIPATED IN THE LONG STRUGGLE FOR FREEDOM FROM THE BRITISH, NEHRU, FONDLY CALLED PANDIT NEHRU, A REFERENCE TO HIS KASHMIRI PANDIT COMMUNITY ROOTS, WAS A FIRM BELIEVER IN NATION BUILDING, AS HE UNDERSTOOD THAT THE YOUNG INDIAN NATION HAD A TRYST WITH DESTINY. ❤❤❤❤❤❤ India's first and longest serving Prime Minister, Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, was a man of vision. Having participated in the long struggle for freedom from the British, Nehru, fondly called Pandit Nehru, a reference to his Kashmiri Pandit community roots, was a firm believer in nation building, as he understood that the young Indian nation had a tryst with destiny. A foreign-educated barrister and a close confidante of Mahatma Gandhi, he came as close as anyone has, or ever will, to becoming the People's Prince. He was Mahatma Gandhi's chosen political heir, and free India's fir...