Saturday, January 8, 2011

How to Talk to Indira Gandhi?

A delegation from Aligarh went to meet the then Prime Minister Mrs Indira Gandhi to discuss problems of Muslims. Miyan was part of the delegation. The meeting took place either in Vigyan or Shahstri Bhawan. The spokesman was going strong-this is happening (against Muslims), that is not happening (for Muslims) and all that. She listened for some time and then hit the table with her fist. "This is constant complaining. Is this the way to talk to the Prime Minister?", she said. "Didn't we make a Muslim Chief Minister? Do you think that was easy? Didn't we make a Muslim the President of India? Don't you feel inspired by that?", she asked.