Prabhupada: Bankim Babu, Bankim Chatterji, a famous novelist, wrote a book, one comic book. Trial is going on, so the witness charged the… First of all the judge charged that “I see you are witness in every case.” He was a professional. So, “You are speaking he is sixty years old for the last five years. You do not increase your age?” (laughing) “No, sir. A gentleman has one word. He does not change his word. And do not think me that I am either a lawyer or a prostitute or a newspaper editor.”

Gargamuni: Oh. Because they’re all liars. Yeah.

Prabhupada: “My word is one. I do not change my word.”

Gargamuni: So a newspaper editor, a lawyer…

Prabhupada: And a prostitute. (laughs) He classified them in one category.

Gargamuni: Especially these newspapers. When you give an interview, they always print something else.

Prabhupada: Yes.

Gargamuni: They never print exactly what one says.

Prabhupada: They’re not honest.

Conversation — January 21, 1977, Bhuvanesvara