Even I, When I Was A Student

To Bear Many Children Is Considered Not Only A Religious Blessing But Also An Investment. The Greater Their Number, Some Indians Reason, The More Alms They Can Beg.

In Any Case, I Married Feroze Gandhi. Once I Get An Idea In My Head, No One In The World Can Make Me Change My Mind.

Not Only My Parents But The Whole Family Was Involved In The Resistance - My Grandfather And Grandmother, My Uncles And Aunts, My Cousings Of Both Sexes. So Ever So Often The Police Came And Took Them Away, Indiscriminately. Well, The Fact That They Arrested Both My Father And Mother, Both My Grandfather And Grandmother, Both An Uncle And An Aunt, Made Me Accustomed To Looking On Men And Women With The Same Eyes, On An Absolute Plane Of Equality.

My Husband Lived In Lucknow. My Father Lived In Delhi, Of Course. So I Shuttled Between Delhi And Lucknow And...naturally, If My Husband Needed Me On Days When I Was In Delhi, I Ran Back To Lucknow. But If It Was My Father Who Needed Me, On The Days When I Was In Lucknow. And...yes, My Husband Got Angry. And He Quarreled. We Quarreled. We Quarreled A Lot. It's True.

I'm Not Interested In One Label Or The Other - I'm Only Interested In Solving Certain Problems, In Getting Where I Want To Go.