in today's world no country can be absolutely independent of another. It is a world of interdependence.

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

At no point, at a very important point: that of having convinced the Indians that they can do things.

In an underdeveloped society, the first anxiety is of infant mortality. In an advanced one it is to keep alive the aged.

My grandfather once told me that there were two kinds of people: those who do the work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was much less competition.

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.

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.