Former Labour Party leader Michael Foot, a friend of India who supported Indian independence movement steadfastly, died in London late Wednesday. He was 96.
'And because she was very close to Indira Gandhi, she was close to me.' 'Sonia is a wonderful person'
Former PM Manmohan Singh and Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi also paid their tributes.
Forty years after the declaration of Emergency by Indira Gandhi, the Sunanda K Datta-Ray recalls life when civil rights were suspended and press censorship was in force