Mr Singh's desperate measures in 1991 were presaged by stealthier reforms under Rajiv Gandhi.
After Indira's death, the vacuum was filled by her son, the political neophyte Rajiv Gandhi.
His father, Rajiv Gandhi, grandmother, Indira Gandhi, and great-grandfather, Jawaharlal Nehru, were all prime ministers of India.
It also killed high profile figures, including Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi and Sri Lankan President Ranasinghe Premadasa.
Its Gandhi cult unites a party that would probably fracture without it, as happened after Rajiv Gandhi's death.
It was trade liberalisation, argues Bibek Debroy of the Rajiv Gandhi Institute for Contemporary Studies, that got exports going.
It still came as a shock in 1991 when Rajiv Gandhi was assassinated by a suspected Tamil suicide bomber.
In 1984, Rajiv Gandhi was sworn in as Indian prime minister amid anti-Sikh riots following the assassination of Indira Gandhi.
In 1988 the two prime ministers, Rajiv Gandhi and Li Peng, agreed to set the border dispute to one side.
The Italian-born Mrs Gandhi is the widow of Rajiv Gandhi, India's prime minister from 1984 until his assassination in 1989.
Mrs Gandhi is the widow of former Indian prime minister Rajiv Gandhi.
The surge in Indian productivity predates Rajiv Gandhi's reforms by five years.
Or that, in mid-1991, former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi would be assassinated?
Born in Italy, Gandhi's connection to India began when she married Rajiv Gandhi, the heir to the Nehru-Gandhi political dynasty in 1968.
Singh set up a meeting with then prime minister Rajiv Gandhi.
Born in northern Italy, Ms. Gandhi moved to India in 1968, when she married Rajiv Gandhi, a future prime minister who was later assassinated.
Only one piece of the puzzle surrounding the murder of former Indian premier Rajiv Gandhi continues to elude investigators: Were parties other than the Tigers involved?
In his lifetime too, Rajiv Gandhi had faced a controversy over alleged bribes paid by Swedish arms firm AB Bofors to clinch the sale of more than 400 howitzers to India.
The inquiry said there was "absolutely no evidence" suggesting that Mrs Gandhi's son, former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi, or "any other high ranking Congress leader had suggested or organised attacks on Sikhs".
Former Indian PM Rajiv Gandhi may have been "a middleman" for Swedish company Saab-Scania when it was trying to sell fighter aircraft to Delhi in the 1970s, allege cables released by Wikileaks.
In 1989, Congress lost power largely because of allegations that members of then-prime minister Rajiv Gandhi's government and businessmen close to the administration had received bribes from the Swedish arms manufacturer Bofors.
He was very much under the influence of then PM Rajiv Gandhi, who had endeared himself to the National Conference leader and persuaded him to enter an electoral alliance with the Congress party.
In India, Mahatma Gandhi, Indira Gandhi and her son Rajiv Gandhi were all assassinated in separate incidents. (Indira Gandhi was killed by her own bodyguards.) Suicide bombers in Sri Lanka have killed several leaders there.
Three convicts on death row for the assassination of former Indian prime minister Rajiv Gandhi and four associates of the notorious bandit Veerappan have also approached the Supreme Court to commute their death sentences on similar grounds.
Besides the letters (to a range of correspondents stretching from John Lennon and John Updike to Rajiv Gandhi and the socks department at Brooks Brothers), there are memorandums (many to the four Presidents he served, Lyndon Johnson and Gerald Ford being the others), notes to himself summarizing conversations he considered important, and entries from his private journal, which include some delightful travel writing.
It earned the label by meeting standards developed by the Indian Green Building Council, the local chapter of U.S. Green Building Council, which created LEED standards. (Here I must give a shout-out to my hometown San Francisco International Airport, whose Terminal 2 also won gold certification, soon after Delhi did.) Rajiv Gandhi International Airport in Hyderabad also won a LEED-Silver rating.
Meanwhile, Sonia Gandhi, widow of Rajiv, a former prime minister, is set formally to take over the leadership of the Congress party from Sitaram Kesri.
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