India Today: Voices

India Today
May 25, 1998

Vajpayeeji moved into 7 Race Course Road today; this is called coming home with a big bang.
Jana Krishnamurthy, BJP vice-president, on the day India conducted the first three nuclear explosions

It is the intelligence failure of the decade.
John Pike, US intelligence specialist, on America's failure to foresee the Indian N-tests

We have to prove we are not eunuchs.
Bal Thackeray, Shiv Sena chief, reacting to the N-tests

We can face any economic sanction.
Murli Manohar Joshi, Union HRD minister, on the threat of sanctions against India

Instead of attending to critical issues like poverty, they are trying to harass and intimidate neighbours.
Amitabh Adhar, Samajwadi Party leader, on the BJP-led Government's decision to conduct N-tests

I am for a secular party set-up. I can't go and join the BJP, can I?
G.K. Moopanar, TMC leader, on his party's decision to work closely with the Congress

I need money for my bungalow and my son's future ... if that means plugging colas and condoms, that's fine by me.
Shah Rukh Khan, actor, in Filmfare