The religion of Hindus, which is more of a creed than a faith, insists on search and inquiry about noble and sacred truth rather than blind belief. In the Hindu creed, there are no believers in religion; there are only seekers of truth.

You have to invest carefully. When you are a top athlete, you get money from people who support you. You have to be very careful. You need to pay your taxes. It is important. If you don’t, you are in trouble.

Look at animals, they bring up their children with so much love. They sometimes die for their children. But as soon as the children grow up, they leave them. It is just us humans who like to dictate to their 40-year-old children about what is right and wrong. It is extremely unnatural.

The judiciary gets its credence from how people perceive this institution. It is one of the three pillars of the system, and the peculiarity is that whoever comes to power, whether at the state level or the Central level, sometimes perceives the judiciary as an antagonistic force…. The fact is that it is a check-and-balance force.

Fitness, for me, is about doing things that make you happy. It is not about returning to your original size but about keeping a reality check, and, most importantly, being kind to yourself.