Sheila Dikshit: The Lover, The Wife, The Daughter-In-Law

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Three-time Delhi chief minister Sheila Dikshit passed away on 20th July. In this 2018 interview to Karan Thapar, she spoke about love, marriage and learning to adjust in her husband’s family. Special thanks to TheWire.in for the video.

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00:00Vinod said something about a marriage so I said have you have have you found the

00:07girl he said so he said yes I thought she's sitting right next to me I just

00:12went back home and you know screamed my happiness with that in front of my

00:48husband so I said have you have have you found the girl he said so he said yes I

01:06thought she's sitting right next to me I was so flabbergasted I just just didn't

01:11say anything I just went back home and you know screamed my happiness with that

01:17in front of my sister and that was about all and in fact my parents were not for

01:24it at all they said what on earth are you trying to get married to a person

01:27who's still studying and you haven't got a job or anything I said well at least

01:32having studied in modern school and having studied in St. Stephen's

01:37he would at least become a peon somewhere

01:41your parents came around pretty quickly but the problem you faced was that the

01:49lady who was to be your mother-in-law yes was dead against the marriage and in

01:53fact your father-in-law to be frankly admitted this to your parents and I

01:58gather from your book that after you got married for the first few nights you

02:02were made to sleep in a storeroom crammed full of utensils laughing that

02:08was it dreadful at the time no it wasn't you know somehow that was what it

02:14was but you were there with the ketli and the tawa and the kathoris and the

02:21glasses and all you see it wasn't a very big house and I didn't know where to

02:27sleep so we just slept why not with your husband but there was no room so was he

02:33in the storeroom with you so what did he make of the fact that he just got

02:38married to the lady he loved and she's been shoved in the storeroom he probably

02:42understood his family much more than I did so then we went off later on but it

02:48was five or four or five for three or four days that we spent there but didn't

02:53meet each other at all

02:56she was a much more open-minded person when somebody one of one of her

03:10granddaughters one of her daughters told her

03:15she is she's a very sensible girl she's from Miranda house

03:25or yeah it's a yes we have an IE a cookie a janty a came a puja curfew

03:30to do a jalati who jammed a puja curfew to tell Isam al-hota a total neck

03:37haram kardesh co diva not haram kardesh co is Leo's name Akal say but I hear I

03:42mean this is the kind of you know affection you get from people who

03:48probably you don't expect

03:55that on one occasion the two of you sat through three consecutive shows of my

04:06fair lady yeah what were you doing in the cinema hall for so long I'm very

04:12no but we came and we had we saw that one show came out there was a quality

04:19restaurant had a little bit of tea and went back in again went back in again

04:23then came back again then went back again ah it was something a we liked the

04:29film and and be be I'm being curious and prudent and be were you holding hands oh

04:35yes of course but that we didn't have to we had a house to hold hands in but which

04:40is why I wanted most people see three movies that ago cuz they're holding

04:44hands and snogging yeah but you had your own home to do that so what were you

04:47doing here for three shows where we were holding hands anyway

05:02you were only 49 at the time how did you handle it ah stuff very tough and even

05:12today I haven't quite accepted the situation you know because with which

05:21we know than me it was not just a marriage it was a very it was a love to

05:30not just an ordinary marriage then you khana pakadiya then Khalili and all that

05:36you adored him you adored him yes I and I think and I hope he's not here to

05:44answer but I think we both adored each other it was unusual and I we never had

05:52a fight never never never had a fight or never had a misunderstanding

06:06I don't know what I would have done I don't know whether I would have joined

06:26politics at all

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