It's not at all hard to reconcile the two things if you organize your time intelligently. Even when my sons were little, I was working.

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 always defended my father, as a child, and I think I'm still defending him - his policies at least. Oh, he wasn't at all a politician, in no sense of the word. He was sustained in his work only by a blind faith in India - he was preoccupied in such an obsessive way by the future of India. We understood each other.

As a nation, I believe we've acquired faith in ourselves.

You must also understand us - always undervalued, underestimated, not believed. Even when we believed, you didn't believe us. You said, 'How is it possible to fight without violence?' But without violence we obtained freedom.

When one has had a life as difficult as mine, one doesn't worry about how others will react.

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