Indira Gandhi is one of great leaders India has ever had.These are lines written by her before being assassinated. They were about death, patriotism . These lines tell us how she felt about them.

"I have never felt less like dying and that calm and peace of mind is what prompts me to write what is in the nature of a will.

If I die a violent death as some fear and a few are plotting, I know the violence will be in the thought and the action of the assassin, not in my dying -- for no hate is dark enoughto overshadow the extent of my love for my people and my country;no force is strong enough to divert me from my purpose and my endeavour to take this country forward.

A poet has written of his 'love'---"how can i feel humble with the wealth of you beside me!" I can say the same of India. I cannot understand how anyone can be Indian and not be proud---the richness and infinite variety of our composite heritage, the magnificience of the people's spirit,equal to any burden or disaster,firm in their faith,gay spontaneously even in poverty and hardship."

----------------Found amongst the papers of Indira Gandhi after her death.

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