Almaty (Kazakhstan): The charismatic late Indira Gandhi 's short half-a-day stay here left such an impact on Kazakhs that many of them decided to name their daughters after her, with the trend still continuing.Charmed by the former prime minister during her visit to the erstwhile USSR in 1955 with her father Jawaharlal Nehru, several people named their daughters after Indira."The name Indira struck a chord with most of the people. Every other household decided to christen a newborn girl after the Indian leader," says 82-year-old Satarhan, a preacher at the central mosque here, whose granddaughter is named Indira."It is not that everyone got to see Indira and Nehru during their half-day stay in Almaty. Whoever saw the lady was mesmerised by her looks, her eloquence and her behaviour. People wanted their daughters and granddaughters to be like her and started naming them after her," Satarhan said."Such was the trend that almost every tenth Kazakh girl was named Indira," he says.Indira Ospanova, a receptionist at a four-star hotel here says, "My grandparents insisted that my name should be Indira."According to ambassador of India to Kazakhstan Ashok Sajjanhar, even today, young girls and those born in the 80s and 90s continue to be named Indira.