If Hyderabad does not see the writing on the wall, it goes the way Junagadh has gone. Pakistan attempted to set off Kashmir against Junagadh. When we raised the question of settlement in a democratic way, they (Pakistan) at once told us that they would consider it if we applied that policy to Kashmir. Our reply was that we would agree to Kashmir if they agreed to Hyderabad.

Caste, community will rapidly disappear. We have to speedily forget all these things. Such boundaries hamper our growth.

My only desire is that India should be a good producer, and no one should be hungry, shedding tears for food in the country.

The main task before India today is to consolidate herself into a well-knit and united power.

By common endeavor we can raise the country to a new greatness, while a lack of unity will expose us to fresh calamities.

No one would starve in independent India. Its grain would not be exported. Cloth would not be imported by it. Its leaders would not use a foreign language and finding justice in it would be neither costly nor difficult.