Indira Gandhi Quote

India wants to avoid a war at all costs but it is not a one-sided affair, you cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.

Press conference, New Delhi (October 19, 1971), quoted in "Indian and Pakistani Armies Confront Each Other Along Borders" by Sydney H. Schanberg, The New York Times (October 20, 1971), page 6C.

India wants to avoid a war at all costs but it is not a one-sided affair, you cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.

India wants to avoid a war at all costs but it is not a one-sided affair, you cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.

India wants to avoid a war at all costs but it is not a one-sided affair, you cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.

India wants to avoid a war at all costs but it is not a one-sided affair, you cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.