This leadership position requires foresight and relationship building because almost all innovative advances are the result of partnerships and teams. This means ensuring we are investing in the science it takes to enable exploration of space and a return investment to life on Earth. Today, I challenge myself to strategically align an entire program of science with national and agency goals to maximize its value for the taxpayer. But, I will always point to the two people who came from nothing and gave me everything: my parents.įrom a tough life in impoverished conditions in a rural area of India, to a tough life in a small West Texas town where ignorance of other cultures prevailed, my parents were part of an immigrant generation that, at the time, was still proving themselves capable of creating a highly educated generation of Americans who could make positive societal contributions (to which I am proud to say I belong). There are many people who have made an impact on who I am and how I think. It had to collapse, allowing Indira Gandhi another gigantic victory in 1980, creating yet another illusion of the Congress Party regaining its earlier might.Mamta safely viewing a total solar eclipse on Aug. Because while it seemed that another national party had got created in the Emergency’s cauldron, the Janata Party was an unsustainable ragtag of ideologically inimical regional and splinter groups. Eighteen months later, she was whipped in the 1977 elections that brought the Janata Party, a hasty coalition of several opposition outfits, to an impressive majority in Parliament.īut once again, an accident of history created a veneer of stability over a political process that was fractioning underneath at an accelerating pace.
But her “take no prisoners” style of politics ended in the brutal Emergency of 1975. She wanted to be the sole fountainhead of power, and her intimidating personality mesmerised the electorate and her opponents for several years. Unlike Nehru, Indira Gandhi was a polarising, centralising politician who was uncomfortable with regional chieftains.
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