It's a law of life - check it and you'll see it holds true in every situation of life.

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

I remember harrowing episodes. People who emigrated, people who didn't want to emigrate...Many Muslims didn't want to leave India to go to live in Pakistan, but the propaganda was that there they'd have greater opportunities and so they left. Many Hindus, on the other hand, didn't want to stay in Pakistan, but they had ties there or property and so they stayed.

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

I'm told [ Zulfikar Ali] Bhutto is ambitious. I hope he's very ambitious; ambition may help him see reality.

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