Humility and simplicity were the hallmarks of Lal Bahadur Shastri, they say. One gets a feel of it at 1, Motilal Nehru Marg, the bungalow where India’s second PM spent the last 14 years of his ...

In the second week of July, 1964, Lal Bahadur Shastri left Delhi for a meeting of Commonwealth prime ministers in London. En route, the plane stopped for refuelling in Karachi, where the President of ...