What good does it do to remain tied to an ideology if you don't achieve anything by it? I have an ideology myself - you can't work in a vacuum; you have to have faith in something.

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.

This is also something I've learned from experience. Didn't they perhaps give us the vote because we went too far?

We know very well that India's destiny is linked to world peace.

No one ever indoctrinated me.

To be a mother, a housewife, never cost me any sacrifice - I savored every minute of those years.

I want to state that there will be friendship between Bangladesh and ourselves. And not a one-sided friendship, of course - no one does anything for nothing; each has something to give and something to take.