There exists no politician in India daring enough to attempt to explain to the masses that cows can be eaten.

I think I'm cold, indeed icy, hard. Then there's another reason, one that goes with my frankness: I don't put on act.

I fall in love with anything I do and I always try to do it well.

If by religion we mean a belief in humanity rather than the gods, an effort to make man better and a little happier, then yes, I'm very religious.

The power to question is the basis of all human progress.

For me the only point that has remained unchanged through the years is that in India there is still so much poverty.

To become our enemies - what an absurdity. A crazy absurdity when you stop to think that we, Muslims and Hindus, had conducted the struggle for independence together.