India, Nov. 20 -- Senior Congress leader Shashi Tharoor on Wednesday paid tribute to former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi on her birth anniversary, calling her a leader who left an "indelible imprint, for good and ill, on modern India".

Marking her 108th birth anniversary, Tharoor wrote on X that while much has been said about Gandhi's decisive leadership during the 1971 Bangladesh War and her controversial declaration of the Emergency, he wanted to share a more personal connection.

"Honouring the towering legacy of our late Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, whose 108th birthday anniversary is today. Much has been (&will be) written about her decisive leadership in redrawing the map of the subcontinent in 1971 and (less admiringly) of the Em...