Now I don't get upset by unpleasant things, I don't play the victim, and I'm always ready to come to terms with life.

When you look at the beginning of the actual war, it's not hard to recognize that the Pakistanis were the ones to attack.

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

I was a perfect housewife. Being a mother has always been the job I liked best. Absolutely.

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.

Yes, he [Mahatma Gandhi] was a great man. However...between me and Gandhi there was never the understanding there was between me and my father.

Little by little I changed my mind, and when I was about eighteen, I began to consider the possibility of getting married. Not to have a husband, but to have children.