He is quoted to have said `` Death with the sword in hand , is always preferable to extinction by a mere stroke of the pen . `` prompting the Indian government to call him the `` Nizam 's Frankenstein monster . '' He is quoted to have said `` Death with the sword in hand , is always preferable to execution by a mere stroke of the pen , prompting the Indian government to call him the `` Nizam 's Frankenstein monster '' .