“You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist”—Indira Gandhi
Two of her own bodyguards assassinated the first female Prime Minister of India, Indira Gandhi, outside of her New Delhi home on October 31, 1984. Satwant Singh and Beant Singh killed the prime minister in retaliation for her crackdown on Sikhs.
Gandhi’s bloodstained sari at the Indira Gandhi Memorial Museum in New Delhi.