The Life I've Had, The Difficulties, The

I Always Defended My Father, As A Child, And I Think I'm Still Defending Him - His Policies At Least. Oh, He Wasn't At All A Politician, In No Sense Of The Word. He Was Sustained In His Work Only By A Blind Faith In India - He Was Preoccupied In Such An Obsessive Way By The Future Of India. We Understood Each Other.

If You Only Knew, For Instance, How Much I Enjoy Being A Grandmother! Do You Know I'm Twice A Grandmother? Rajiv And Sonia Have Had A Boy And A Girl.

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.

I Began To Travel By Myself, In Europe, When I Was Eight Years Old. At That Age I Was Already On The Move Between India And Swizerland, Switzerland And France, France And England. Administering My Own Finances Like An Adult.

Difficulties Can't Be Eliminated From Life. Individuals Will Always Have Them, Countries Will Always Have Them...the Only Thing Is To Accept Them, If Possible Overcome Them, Otherwise To Come To Terms With Them. It's All Right To Fight, Yes, But Only When It's Possible.