October 31, 2025—Forty-one years after the bullets of her own bodyguards pierced the dawn calm of her official residence in Safdarjung Road, India pauses to remember Indira Gandhi, the Iron Lady whose unyielding grip on power and visionary grit shaped the contours of a nascent nation. Assassinated on this day in 1984 at the age of 66 by Satwant Singh and Beant Singh—two Sikh members of her security detail in the turbulent aftermath of Operation Blue Star—Gandhi’s death