I have never, in 50 years, ever missed a deadline [as a journalist].

Your principle should be to see everything and say nothing. The world changes so rapidly that if you want to get on you cannot afford to align yourself with any person or point of view.

I think the sense of belonging does give you a certain amount of mental satisfaction.

I am prolific. Any rubbish I write gets published, so books keep churning out.

Nature provides that a man who slaves all day should spend the hours of the night in a palace full of houris whereas a king who wields the sceptre by day should have his sleep disturbed by nightmares of rebellion and assassination.

Not forever does the bulbul sing In balmy shades of bowers, Not forever lasts the spring Nor ever blossom the flowers. Not forever reigneth joy, Sets the sun on days of bliss, Friendships not forever last, They know not life, who know not this.

I did subscribe to the freedom movement and I was much closer to the Congress than to the Akali party. It is a communal party.