“+ ‘Is that some kind of joke? If you want to drink water, why do you bother about the tumbler? Water will remain the same no matter what contains it.’

- ‘That is precisely what I want to say. The important thing is the water and not the container. If the water is clean, it doesn’t matter whether it’s in a glass or in a steel tumbler. If your thoughts, emotions and ideas are good and in the interests of the nation, it doesn’t matter whether you express them in Hindi or English.”