This video reminded me of something that I read about her in the Katherine Frank book on her. So, she had close friends in UK and US from her oxford days who she communicated with regularly so as much as she was in grip of sanjay she was also embarrassed by the fact /1 https://twitter.com/elebrundamiens/status/1315658722111180800

That she was seen as this dictator esp by them and while she could obviously continue indefinitely with her emergency she decided not to primarily because she wanted to save face with her friends like Dorothy Norman, who she would write letters signing off with your despot. /2

Ultimately her own sense of shame led her in part to end emergency. I wonder if there is anything equaling that for modi ji. /end