The less famous cousin

Mumbai | Sunday | 20th March, 2016

Summary:

With his strong political acumen, philanthropic initiative for poor farmers, and the occasional spirited defiance against his own party, Feroz Varun Gandhi is staking a claim to his legacy, but he absolutely refuses to lean on his storied last name.

He scrupulously avoids any mention of his late father Sanjay Gandhi, perhaps on account of his controversial legacy; and of his mother Maneka Gandhi, Union minister for women and child development in this government.

He will only talk about what a doting grandmother she is to his oneand-a-half-year-old daughter Anusuya, and that her book on baby names for Penguin is still a bestseller..