He flew a plane that he was forbidden to fly and crashed

"Rajiv and Sonia were very Western... And Sanjay was completely Indian, ... And we didn't own anything."
"Sonia and I spent a lot of time talking. You know it's odd that in one family two brothers and their wives could be so different."
"Sonia was much older. I can't say I was a friend... No (after Sanjay's death) my mother-in-law had to listen to all sorts of demands and commands. 'Maneka must go, she won't sit at the same table as us.'"
"There are no differences. You don't become a relative just by being related."
Describing Sanjay as the brightest human being she has ever met, Maneka gently defends her husband against charges that he was to blame for the emergency rule of Indira Gandhi when thousands of political activists were jailed.