There are few subjects that match the social significance of women's education in the contemporary world.

I have not had any serious non-academic job.

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

One has to be realistic. One’s concern for equity and justice in the world must not carry one into the alien territory of unreasoned belief. That’s very important.

Education can really transform the insecurities in the world into a bigger vision of what we are as human beings.

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

If the knowledge of torture of others makes you sick, it is a case of sympathy... It can be argued that behaviour based on sympathy is in an important sense egoistic, for one is oneself pleased at others' pleasure and pained at others' pain, and the pursuit of one's own utility may thus be helped by sympathetic action.