My children needed me, and I like my job as a social worker.

Rebels and non-conformists are often the pioneers and designers of change.

It's a law of life - check it and you'll see it holds true in every situation of life.

I began to travel by myself, in Europe, when I was eight years old. At that age I was already on the move between India and Swizerland, Switzerland and France, France and England. Administering my own finances like an adult.

All my games were political games; I was, like Joan of Arc, perpetually being burned at the stake.

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

One day in 1965 Rajiv wrote me from London, where he was studying, and informed me, 'You're always asking me about girls, whether I have a special girl, and so forth. Well, I've met a special girl.' And when Rajiv returned to India, I asked him, 'Do you still think about her in the same way?' And he said yes. But she couldn't get married until she was twenty-one, and until she was sure she'd like to live in India. Sonia is almost completely an Indian by now, even though she doesn't always wear saris.