Voices

India Today, December 21, 1998
Dec 21, 1998

Kashmir is not merely a piece of land for us in India.
Atal Bihari Vajpayee, prime minister, during a visit to the state

We are going to have our summer very soon. This is just the winter.
Sushma Swaraj, former Delhi chief minister, on the BJP's setbacks in the polls

The BJP Government's Hindutva ideology does not reach my yard.
Mamata Banerjee, Trinamool Congress chief

Corruption today is a low-risk, high-profit area. The bureaucracy has become an integral part of the neta-babu-lala syndrome.
N. Vittal, central vigilance commissioner, in The Economic Times

The Congress and the BJP are interchangeable coins. Neither of them want the third front to survive.
Ram Vilas Paswan, Janata Dal leader

I will not say that I am a scapegoat. I have become a martyr in the cause of Vande Mataram.
Ravindra Shukla, former minister of Uttar Pradesh, on being dropped from the Kalyan Singh ministry

The prime minister writes poetry. How will he feel if someone were to tear up his work?
Deepa Mehta, filmmaker, on attempts to ban her film, Fire

Looking sexy has nothing to do with acting. It's part of your personality.
Urmila Matondkar, actress, in Filmfare