Many journalists wanted to interview me about my personal life and background, but I always refused. I never kept a diary, and I will never write my memoirs. Sometime back a journalist of Hindi Tehelka magazine wanted to interview me about my life, but I refused. It seems the journalist then contacted some people in my home town Allahabad and published a long article on me, which can also be seen on the website Tehelkahindi.com. It mentions about my work as a school teacher in a village for 2 years in the late 1960s (where my salary was Rs. 120 per month) after I obtained my law degree I never mentioned this to anyone, and had no intention to do so but what I learnt in the village was of immense use to me in later life as I came to know of the realities in rural India where over 70% of Indians live

Read the tehelka story here .