It is important to reclaim for humanity the ground that has been taken from it by various arbitrarily narrow formulations of the demands of rationality

The higher education has always appealed to the South Asian social leaders across all the countries in South Asia. But primary education has been neglected. The oddity, by the way, is if you look at the contrast in India, there are some areas like Kerala where there's a long history of educational development.

There are Muslims of all kinds. The idea of closing them into a single identity is wrong.

When the government is trying to penny-pinch and, at the same time, trying to keep a defense expenditure and so forth, which are regarded as quote unquote essential, the education is regarded inessential.

I remain instinctively hostile to communitarian philosophy and communitarian politics.

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

Human ordeals thrive on ignorance. To understand a problem with clarity is already half way towards solving it.