the identity of an individual is essentially a function of her choices, rather than the discovery of an immutable attribute

A defeated argument that refuses to be obliterated can remain very alive.

The anti-globalization movement is one of the biggest globalized events of the contemporary world, people coming from everywhere, —Australia, Indonesia, Britain, India, Poland, Germany, South Africa—to demonstrate in Seattle or Quebec. What could be more global than that?

I don’t think that India is much celebrated for its democracy. Democracy has been a very neglected commodity at home and abroad.

[Globalization] has enriched the world scientifically and culturally and benefited many people economically as well.

To say that the whole of the industrial experience of Europe and America just shows the rewards of exploiting the Third World is a gross simplification.

Democracy is a universal value