My Father Was A Saint. He Was

I Always Wanted To Have Children - If It Had Been Up To Me, I Would Have Had Eleven. It Was My Husband Who Wanted Only Two.

What We Do Now, On The Other Hand...don't Think That I'm Crazy About This Kind Of Politics. It's No Accident That I've Done Everything To Keep My Sons Out Of It, And So Far I've Succeeded. After Independence I Retired Immediately From Politics.

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.

I Suggested A Compromise To Give The Banks A Year's Time And See If They Succeed In Showing Us That Nationalization Wasn't Necessary. The Year Went By And We Realized It Hadn't Done Any Good, That The Money Still Ended Up In The Hands Of The Rich Industrialists Or Friends Of The Bankers. So I Concluded That It Was Necessary To Nationalize The Banks. And We Did. Without Considering It A Socialist Gesture Or An Antisocialist Gesture, Just A Necessary One. Anyone Who Nationalizes Only So As To Be Considered On The Left To Me Is A Fool.

I Began To Associate With Mahatma Gandhi When He Came And Went In Our House - Together With My Father And Mother He Was On The Executive Committee. After Independence I Worked With Him A Lot - In The Period When There Were The Troubles Between Hindus And Muslims, He Assigned Me To Take Care Of The Muslims. To Protect Them.