My dignity, like Mrs. Gandhi said, is to follow my husband.
Somebody has to carry on the fight.
And so Wan Azizah joined a long line of Asian women who took up the political cudgels for a downed husband, father or brother. But Wan Azizah is no Sonia Gandhi. She may actually be more like Myanmar's Aung San Suu Kyi - a woman hemmed in by a suffocating security apparatus. Wan Azizah had told a TV station that she feared the authorities would inject her husband with the HIV virus. That the government takes Wan Azizah seriously at all says something about her power - or at least the administration's perception of it.