I Don't Mind If My Life Goes

When You Govern A Country, And Especially A Country So Vast And Complex As India, You Never Arrive At Anything.

I Said, I'll Put On Weight. And I Started Having Massages, Taking Cod-liver Oil, And Eating Twice As Much. But I Didn't Even Gain An Ounce. I'd Made Up My Mind That On The Day The Engagement Was Announced I'd Be Fatter, And I Didn't Gain An Ounce. Then I Went To Mussoorie, Which Is A Health Resort, And I Ignored The Doctors' Instructions; I Invented My Own Regime And Gained Weight. Just The Opposite Of What I'd Like Now. Now I Have The Problem Of Keeping Slim. Still I Manage. I Don't Know If You Realize I'm A Determined Woman.

People Often Ask Me: Who Has Influenced You The Most? Your Father? Mahatma Gandhi? Yes, My Choices Were Fundamentally Influenced By Them, By The Spirit Of Equality They Infused In Me - My Obsession For Justice Comes From My Father, Who In Turn Got It From Mahatma Gandhi.

You Don't Help A Country By Supporting A Military Regime That Denies Any Sign Of Democracy, And What Defeated Pakistan Was Its Military Regime.

Education Is A Liberating Force, And In Our Age It Is Also A Democratizing Force, Cutting Across The Barriers Of Caste And Class, Smoothing Out Inequalities Imposed By Birth And Other Circumstances.