Poverty is not really as much of an obstacle to educational expansion as it's sometimes made out to be.

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

In all kinds of ways there are different freedoms that effect our lives and you can assess what our lives are like by looking at the various freedoms that we have.

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.

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

It’s very easy to capture pictures of jubilant people in the street after the nuclear bomb. But there were no pictures of morose people sitting in their kitchens and living rooms.

Poverty is not really as much of an obstacle to educational expansion as it's sometimes made out to be.