There’s a clear and strong connection between fertility reduction and women’s literacy and empowerment, including women’s gainful employment. If you look at the more than 300 districts of India, the strongest influences in explaining fertility variations are women’s literacy and gainful economic employment.

[N]o democracy with a free press has ever experienced a major famine.

Starvation is the characteristic of some people not having enough food to eat. It is not the characteristic of there being not enough food to eat.

But the idea that I should be a teacher and a researcher of some sort did not vary over the years.

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

We need to ask the moral questions: Do I have a right to be rich? And do I have a right to be content living in a world with so much poverty and inequality? These questions motivate us to view the issue of inequality as central to human living.

The lack of economic freedom could be a very major reason for loss of liberty, liberty of life.