India Today: Voices

India Today
August 10, 1998

The day we are able to provide a viable alternative, we will not wait.
Sharad Pawar, Congress leader, on his party staking claim to power at the Centre, in an interview to a private TV channel

My name is synonymous with dissent.
Shankersinh Vaghela, former chief minister of Gujarat

Suddenly after three years I have become bad because I am a Brahmin.
Manohar Joshi, Maharashtra chief minister, saying that some people want to oust him owing to his caste, in The Indian Express

I am sure we'll get similar applications even on Mount Everest.
George Fernandes, defence minister, on receiving applications for jobs from pilgrims at the Amarnath cave shrine

Even a mad man would not have taken the kind of political decisions which Romesh Bhandari had taken.
Bhai Mahavir, Madhya Pradesh governor, refuting that he was behaving like the former Uttar Pradesh governor, in Sunday

Godse was trained for the assassination, which the RSS describes as vadh as if he got rid of a demon.
Tushar Gandhi, great grandson of Mahatma Gandhi, in The Sunday Observer

Kajol and I are the new Bengali tigresses. We won't be taken for granted.
Rani Mukherjee, actress, in Cine Blitz