You've never been very generous, you Westerners, toward us Indians. You should have seen that things were changing, albeit slowly. You should have seen that something was happening. Not much, but something.

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

No one wanted that marriage, no one. Even Mahatma Gandhi wasn't happy about it. As for my father...it's not true that he opposed it, as people say, but he wasn't eager for it. I suppose because the fathers of only daughters would prefer to see them get married as late as possible.

How is it possible for people in the modern world to go on killing each other for religion? The problems we should be concerned with nowadays are quite different!

Let's not forget that in India the symbol of strength is a woman; the goddess Shakti.

In any case, I married Feroze Gandhi. Once I get an idea in my head, no one in the world can make me change my mind.

I don't see why we and the Chinese should have to be enemies.