Sharma : Does not merely an intellectual approach to public life or politics make a person a little less human?
Chavan : I don't think so. why should it be so? Because his intellectual thinking also must have some human consideration, human sympathies; intellectual does not mean completely devoid of human approach and emotions. Because a man can be socialist intellectually, besically he sympathies with the poor. Karuna. It is the compelling factor. Though many times I differ with my colleagues, still I respect them and have personal feeling for them. I had seriously differed with Mrs Gandhi, but today when she was arrested, I was moved. This is human affection.
Sharma : Was your attitude towards the down-trodden of karuna or sahanubhuti?
Chavan : Karuna not sahannbhuti. They are not the same.
Sharma : That's why I asked.
Chavan : That is why I used the word Karuna, not sahunubhuti. Karuna is a sort of feeling or resentment against injustice, it is a mixture of both.
Sharma : Does inustic make you angry at times?
Chavan : It does, very much.
Sharma : It is more than resentment?
Chavan : It is something more than resentment.