Amitabh says his mother is a modern lady who keeps herself abreast with the latest trends in fashion.
A stunner in her youth, Teji, Amitabh remembers, treated him and younger brother Ajitabh like adults.
Once when Amitabh came home teary eyed after a fight at school, she told him he must learn to fight his own battles.
How many people know that it was to Harivansh Rai and Teji Bachchan that Indira Gandhi sent her daughter-in-law-to-be Sonia Maino when the young Italian arrived in India to marry an Indian Airlines pilot named Rajiv Gandhi? She was anxious that Sonia learn a bit about Indian culture and customs, and who better to give her a crash course than the elder Bachchans?
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