New Delhi, May 23 -- On the morning of October 31, 1984, Dr Sneh Bhargava walked into a nightmare. Just hours after becoming the first woman director of Delhi's All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), the bloodied body of then prime minister Indira Gandhi was wheeled into the hospital's casualty ward, her saffron sari riddled with 33 bullets. "The cold metal of the gurney against the skin would have made any patient wince," Bhargava writes in her memoir, The Woman Who Ran AIIMS, published by Juggernaut. Gandhi's daughter-in-law Sonia, "in shock," managed only to whisper, "She has been shot," before collapsing. Surgeons scrambled as bullets "tumbled out and clattered to the floor," but hope had already vanished. "She had no pulse," ...