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.