Feroze Gandhi was an Indian politician and journalist. He published the newspapers The National Herald and The Navjivan. He also served as a member of the provincial parliament between 1950 and 1952, and later a member of the Lok Sabha, the Lower House of India’s parliament.
On his birth anniversary, here’s looking at the lesser-known fact about Feroze Gandhi
- Feroze Gandhi was born as Feroze Jehangir Ghandy to a Parsi family at the Tehmulji Narima hospital situated in Fort, Bombay; his parents, Jehangir Faredoon Ghandy and Ratimai (née Commissariat), lived in Nauroji Natakwala Bhawan in Khetwadi Mohalla in Bombay.
- His father Jahangir was a marine engineer in Killick Nixon and was later promoted as a warrant engineer.
- Feroze was the youngest of the five children with two brothers Dorab and Faridun Jehangir, and two sisters, Tehmina Kershashp and Aloo Dastur.
- In the early 1920s, after the death of his father, Feroze and his mother moved to Allahabad to live with his unmarried maternal aunt, Shirin Commissariat, a surgeon at the city’s Lady Dufferin Hospital.
- Biographer Katherine Frank has speculated that Feroze was, in fact, the biological son of Shirin Commissariat
- His wife Indira Nehru and elder son Rajiv were both Prime Ministers of India
Feroze suffered a heart attack in 1958. Indira, who stayed with her father at Teen Murti House, the official residence of the prime minister, was at that time away on a state visit to Bhutan. She returned to look after him in Kashmir. Feroze died in 1960 at the Willingdon Hospital, Delhi, after suffering a second heart attack.
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