It has been days that browsing news or social networks, we see a smiley with exuberant hair. That is no one other the Iron Lady – Margaret Thatcher, who died on Monday morning at the age of eighty seven.

During her premiership from 1979 to 1990, she was one of the most celebrated and after her death there are talks about Thatcherism. Many of Afghans in Facebook shared her photo, talking about their personal memories and when they came to hear about her name. From comments, it can be understood that she is still unknown to Afghan people, including the intellectual layers of the society.

The only thing that could be heard a lot was that she was British Prime Minister for more than years. But the bulky posts made by international media and individuals from the rest of countries affected Afghan intellectuals too as during last few days many started searching who she was.

No doubt, the revolutionary development of media that hastily follows any source to carve out their headlines, the demise of Margaret Thatcher was one. No matter, how much the reporters of local radios and televisions knew about her, they released news about her. The news will affect people and by collecting more information about the economic and political policies of Thatcher, Afghan academic elites will find her interesting to set as model.

She was a grocer’s daughter. She died as Baroness Thatcher of Kesteven. She went to war with Argentina. She seemed ready to provoke the Soviet Union to a civilization-ending conflict, bringing American nuclear missiles to Europe, and instead was present at the Warsaw Pact’s mostly peaceful disintegration. She once told George H. W. Bush that it would be “wobbly” of him not to go to war with Iraq.

She met with Nelson Mandela, smiling, after years of what might generously be called ambivalence on her part about what he represented for South Africa. If the relationship with Northern Ireland was still as it was when she was in charge, her obituaries today might have a sharper tone—from both sides.

She was the most powerful woman in the world and went regularly to pay homage to a Queen.

Though during past two decades she was somehow away from politics and during her premiership used to come under harsh criticism, but no doubt she was revered lady who stood for what she believed. So, she would be remembered like historical heroes.