How did you feel when Netaji asked you to lead the Rani Jhansi contingent?
I felt very happy when Netaji asked me to lead the Rani Jhansi contingent. It was a proud moment for me. Have the goals of freedom fighters been achieved? We could not achieve our goals. We were against partition. We took the partition as our defeat. Muslims in West Punjab who were also part of INA wanted to go to India. But Nehru asked them to go to Pakistan and be loyal to that country. How does it feel that you were born and brought up in South India and then spent most of your life in North? I have always felt myself just an Indian, live like an Indian and will die an Indian. My family never made me feel different from them, so I never realised even in my remote thoughts that I was born and brought up in South. For me it is nothing like North and South, it is just the India. Where in your opinion did we go wrong in the past 60 years? It is wrong to feel that all our problems are over. It is our big mistake that we did not involve the youth of the country in its progress. This is th
