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

There is considerable evidence that women's education and literacy tend to reduce the mortality rates of children

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

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.

South Korea from a country that had relatively little primary education became close to universal literacy in the course of 25, 30 years, in a way trying to replicate what Japan had done earlier. They were learning to some extent from the Japanese experience too. So I think, in a sense, the East Asians were following a path, which all other countries including South Asia could follow but chose not too.

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

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.