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Mahatma Gandhi
Indian political leader, Father of the Nation.
This date is in the wider Indian-history calendar but does not yet have a dedicated Curious Indian article.
Lal Bahadur Shastri was born at Mughalsarai on 2 October 1904; he later became India’s second Prime Minister and led the country during the 1965 India-Pakistan war.
No Post-Mortem
The Lal Bahadur Shastri death mystery remains one of India’s most enduring cold cases, involving international diplomacy, suspicious symptoms, and a silence that has lasted over five decades.
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