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

I have not had any serious non-academic job.

Each human being is a citizen of the world. We have many identities, of which one of the identities is our human identity. And that's something that the schools can provide, but that requires again a vision rather than being centers of hatred. It could be an enormous opportunity to give that mission.

We might have reason to be driven! We live for a short stretch of time in a world we share with others. Virtually everything we do is dependent on others, from the arts and culture to farmers who grow the food we eat.

I was told Indian women don't think like that about equality. But I would like to argue that if they don't think like that they should be given a real opportunity to think like that.

No substantial famine has ever occurred in a democratic country - no matter how poor.

I remain instinctively hostile to communitarian philosophy and communitarian politics.