All of a sudden inscriptions appeared on walls. Signs appeared. And that 'no' exploded all over India, in an act of pride that surprised even me. Then even the political parties, all of them, even the deputies in Parliament, said no: it's better to die of hunger than be taken for a nation of beggars.

It depends on what you mean by the word religion. Certainly I don't go to temples and pray to the gods or anything like that.

Our pride has grown in the last twenty-five years, though others don't understand it and underestimate it.

If by religion we mean a belief in humanity rather than the gods, an effort to make man better and a little happier, then yes, I'm very religious.

This is also something I've learned from experience. Didn't they perhaps give us the vote because we went too far?

When you look at the beginning of the actual war, it's not hard to recognize that the Pakistanis were the ones to attack.

I'm not interested in one label or the other - I'm only interested in solving certain problems, in getting where I want to go.