'Indian', [mom said], you will write Indian. And if they have a problem with that let them come and talk to me. They have no business asking you your religion. How is that the basis for an educational qualification?

Reply to her daughter Pooja Bedi who was filling a form in the school in Bedi; Ibrahim; Pooja (April 2003). Timepass. Penguin Books India. p. vii. ISBN 978-0-14-028880-3.