Leadership is important in politics.

Our aim should be to not allow a single corrupt politician or even a family member to enter the House.

We have police stations for the poor but CBI, CVC and CAGs for the rich with nearly nil recovery of ill usurped wealth.

You need your private space.

As I started to pursue the subject more deeply I realized that walking was this wonderful meandering path through everything I was already interested in - gender politics, public space and urban life, demonstrations and parades and marches. The relationship between walking and thinking and between the mind and the body.

I never thought of politics as a profession.

The government may change faces from time to time, but it's not like we fight wars for democracy - we fight wars for capitalism and for oil.

When I was in politics, I always got accused of image-making and trying to make them something they weren't. Truth was - and nobody ever discovered it, although I was in that business for twenty years - what I was trying to do was to get them to be themselves.