Mahatma Gandhi was always talking of religion...He was convinced that was right...The fact is, we young people didn't agree with him on many things.

I refuse to indulge in small talk. And compliments, if at all, I save for after the job is done.

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.

It was the very fact that no one ever imposed anything on me or tried to impose himself on the others.

I grew up like a boy, also because most of the children who came to our house were boys.

A lot of mythology arose after [Mahatma Gandhi] death. But the fact remains that he was an exceptional man, terribly intelligent, with tremendous intuition for people, and a great instinct for what was right.

You said, 'How is it possible for democracy to work with an illiterate people who are dying of hunger?' But with that people we made a democracy work.