In fact the communists gained strength in India when the people thought my party was moving to the right. And they were correct.
In fact the communists gained ...
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You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
I think basically I'm lazy, but I have a housewife's mentality when I go about my job.
My theory is that men are no more liberated than women.
I know you were surprised when, after the fall of Dacca, Pakistani and Indian officers shook hands. But do you realize that, up until 1965, in our army and the Pakistani one you could come across generals who were brothers? Blood brothers, sons of the same father and the same mother.
I've always been able to do what I wanted. On the other hand, my mother was. She considered the fact of being a woman a great disadvantage. She had her reasons. In her day women lived in seclusion - in almost all Indian states they couldn't even show themselves on the street.