Sheila Dikshit was quite fond of Western music since her youth and would sit near the radio waiting for her favourite songs to be aired. She also developed a fascination for footwear and had a good collection. Apart from these, reading was a big passion. She also loved watching movies and her first film in theatres was “Hamlet” in black-and-white.
In the midst of hectic political activity too, she would take out time for watching a movie and saw Shah Rukh Khan-starrer “Dilwale Dulhania Le Jaenge” 20 times. Dikshit had mentioned about these in her autobiography “Citizen Delhi: My Times, My Life” published last year.
“There was no television, and radio was accessible only during certain hours of the day. Life revolved around studying for school and pastimes like reading books, watching the occasional film, and listening to music,” she wrote.
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