Even in areas like the most depressed region of India in terms of female education, namely Rajasthan, which has [one of] the lowest female literacy [rates] in India. Even there, 80 to 90 percent of the parents would like their girls to go to school. And indeed, about 80 percent would like them to be made compulsory.

I left Delhi, in 1971, shortly after Collective Choice and Social Welfare was published in 1970.

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

Opponents of globalisation may see it as a new folly, but it is neither particularly new, nor, in general, a folly.

Progress is more plausibly judged by the reduction of deprivation than by the further enrichment of the opulent

Economic growth without investment in human development is unsustainable - and unethical.

Belonging to humanity is a great thing for us, and I think the schools can do it. So I think we can look after the quality of education on the school even as we expand the availability of schooling.