" An interesting tailpiece to this agitation was provided by a Tamil MP from the party carrying on the anti-Hindi movement.
Anand knew him very well, having met him several times in Delhi.
One day, the MP arrived at Palam airport from Madras at the same time as Anand was about to leave Delhi for Afrozabad. They happened to meet in the VIP lounge.
The MP was accompanied by his teenage son, whom he introduced to Anand.
Then, with some amount of paternal pride, he said, "You know, he is studying in Delhi and always comes first in his class in Hindi!"
Surprised, Anand said, "And you don't know a word of Hindi and agitate against it all the time!"
"This is politics, you see?", said the MP. "

― P.V. Narasimha Rao , The Insider