The fear factor was my greatest challenge with The Whispering Town. How could I portray danger without really frightening the youngest readers and without diluting the story?
Failure is a word unknown to me.
We should have a State in which we could live and breathe as free men and which we could develop according to our own lights and culture and where principles of Islamic social justice could find free play.
I sincerely hope that they (relations between India and Pakistan) will be friendly and cordial. We have a great deal to do. . . and think that we can be of use to each other (and to) the world.
I am NOT fighting for Muslims, believe me, when I demand Pakistan.
No settlement with the majority is possible as no Hindu leader speaking with any authority shows any concern or genuine desire for it.
I have nothing to do with this pseudo-religious approach that Gandhi is advocating.
I have died many times. I have actually beaten Jesus Christ because he only died once.
I don't really act. I say the words the way I would say them if I meant them.
Bitterness doesn't serve you any good. And it really tells you more about how you feel about yourself than anything you feel about your friends.
Why do bad things happen to good people? That only happened once and He volunteered.