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

When you govern a country, and especially a country so vast and complex as India, you never arrive at anything.

It's true that I refused foreign aid. It's true. It wasn't my personal decision, however - it was the whole country that said no.

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

Every democratic system evolves its own conventions. It is not only the water but the banks which make the river.

It would seem that it was not in the interest of 'someone' for us to make progress. It was in 'someone's' interest that we be always at war, that we tear each other to pieces. Yes, I'm inclined to absolve the Pakistanis. How should they have behaved? Someone encouraged them to attack us, someone gave them weapons to attack us. And they attacked us.

The longer one doesn't write, the more difficult it is to communicate.