The book is one of the best biographies of the legendary former Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi who was assassinated by her own bodyguards in the year 1984. Indira despite 21 years since her death lives in the hearts of millions of Indians particularly villagers in the country for whom the word India was synonymous with Indira. Anser Kidwai, the author a former editor of the National Herald daily saw her from very close quarters.