When It's Impossible, It's Better To Stoop

No One Ever Indoctrinated Me.

I Had Many Dolls. And You Know How I Played With Them? By Performing Insurrections, Assemblies, Scenes Of Arrest. My Dolls Were Almost Never Babies To Be Nursed But Men And Women Who Attacked Barracks And Ended Up In Prison.

At A Certain Point The Family Moved To Jaipur, Where No Woman Could Avoid The Doli Or Purdah. They Kept Her In The House From Morning To Night, Either Cooking Or Doing Nothing. [my Mother] Hated Doing Nothing, She Hated To Cook. So She Became Pale And Ill, And Far From Being Concerned About Her Health, My Grandfather Said, 'who's Going To Marry Her Now?' So My Grandmother Waited For My Grandfather To Go Out, And Then She Dressed My Mother As A Man And Let Her Go Out Riding With Her Brothers.

India Had Barely Become Independent, In 1947, When Pakistan Invaded Kashmir, Which At The Time Was Ruled By A Maharajah. The Maharajah Fled, And The People Of Kashmir, Led By Sheikh Abdullah, Asked For Indian Help. Lord [louis] Mountbatten, Who Was Still Governor General, Replied That He Wouldn't Be Able To Supply Aid To Kashmir Unless Pakistan Declared War, And He Didn't Seem Bothered By The Fact That The Pakistanis Were Slaughtering The Population.

One Must Beware Of Ministers Who Can Do Nothing Without Money, And Those Who Want To Do Everything With Money.