Maybe I would have considered the problem if I'd met someone with whom I'd have liked to live. But I never met this someone and... No, even if I had met him, I'm sure I wouldn't have got married again. Why should I get married now that my life is so full? No, no, it's out of the question.

To bear many children is considered not only a religious blessing but also an investment. The greater their number, some Indians reason, the more alms they can beg.

Little by little I changed my mind, and when I was about eighteen, I began to consider the possibility of getting married. Not to have a husband, but to have children.

We couldn't be everywhere, we couldn't see everything, and it was inevitable that some things would escape us.

In fact the communists gained strength in India when the people thought my party was moving to the right. And they were correct.

I fall in love with anything I do and I always try to do it well.

The question before the advanced nations is not whether they can afford to help the developing nations, but whether they can afford not to do so.