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.

The student community of Presidency College was also politically most active.

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

[To organize a school] looks much more difficult in theory than it does in practice.

I think gender inequality is a problem that goes back a long, long time. In human society, as a whole, women have tended to have a kind of inferior position - very often combined with playing up women as great role [models].

The market economy succeeds not because some people's interests are suppressed and other people are kept out of the market, but because people gain individual advantage from it.

Democracy is a universal value