When You Govern A Country,

The Western Press Has Always Insisted That India Was Pakistan's Enemy And Vice Versa, That The Hindus Were Against The Muslims And Vice Versa. They've Never Said, For Instance, That My Party Has Been Fighting This Attitude Ever Since We Have Maintained That Religious Hostilities Are Wrong And Absurd, That Minorities Cannot Be Eliminated From A Country, That People Of Different Religions Must Live Together.

There Are Only Moments Of Happiness - From Contentment To Ecstacy.

It Would Seem That It Was Not In The Interest Of 'someone' For Us To Make Progress. It Was In 'someone's' Interest That We Be Always At War, That We Tear Each Other To Pieces. Yes, I'm Inclined To Absolve The Pakistanis. How Should They Have Behaved? Someone Encouraged Them To Attack Us, Someone Gave Them Weapons To Attack Us. And They Attacked Us.

By Now Even The Word Socialism Has So Many Meanings And Interpretations. The Russians Call Themselves Socialists, The Swedes Call Themselves. And Let's Not Forget That In Germany There Was Also A National Socialism.

All Of A Sudden Inscriptions Appeared On Walls. Signs Appeared. And That 'no' Exploded All Over India, In An Act Of Pride That Surprised Even Me. Then Even The Political Parties, All Of Them, Even The Deputies In Parliament, Said No: It's Better To Die Of Hunger Than Be Taken For A Nation Of Beggars.