"Rajiv has a job but Sanjay doesn’t and is also involved in an expensive venture,” then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi wrote in February 1971 about her sons to her principal secretary Parmeshwar Narayan (P. N.) Haksar. She was referring to her younger son’s involvement with the people’s car project that evolved subsequently into Maruti Suzuki. The boys’ father was a Parsi, Feroze Gandhi of Allahabad.
From l: Indira, Sanjay and Varun Gandhi
"He (Sanjay) is much like I was at his age — rough edges and all — that my heart aches for the suffering he may have to bear,” she......