When Maneka Gandhi was made environment minister in the 1989 government of VP Singh, India Today reported this following conversation between two mandarins (reproduced from memory):
Mandarin 1: She's some woman she is. She will eat up all the bureaucrats under her. Mandarin 2: She can't do that. She's a vegetarian. Mandarin 1: Well, they're all vegetables. -- Amit Varma http://www.indiauncut.com
