I grew up like a boy, also because most of the children who came to our house were boys.

I want to succeed. And I want to succeed in the best way possible, without caring whether people call my actions leftist or rightist.

People often ask me: Who has influenced you the most? Your father? Mahatma Gandhi? Yes, my choices were fundamentally influenced by them, by the spirit of equality they infused in me - my obsession for justice comes from my father, who in turn got it from Mahatma Gandhi.

Nothing lasts forever, and no one can predict what will happen to me in the near or distant future.

We always said that our struggle was not only against the British as representatives of colonialism, it was against all the evil that existed in India. The evil of the feudal system, the evil of the system based on caste, the evil of economic injustice.

We announced that there'd be no more starvation in India. And you responded, 'Impossible. You'll never succeed!' Instead we succeeded; today in India no one dies of hunger any more; food production far exceeds consumption.

You don't help a country by supporting a military regime that denies any sign of democracy, and what defeated Pakistan was its military regime.