The American people ought to know that it is not them, but their government's policies, that are so hated.

I am an artist and a writer, and I do think that one always places oneself in the picture to see where one fits.

My writing is translated into every Indian language, it's distributed in pamphlets, in little private video things, it's everywhere. So it's a lovely pastime for the middle class to think of itself as the whole nation.

If you're happy in a dream, does that count?

Violating human rights is integral to the project of neoliberalism and global hegemony.

Nilekani's technocratic obsession with gathering data is consistent with that of Bill Gates, as though lack of information is what is causing world hunger.

When you say things like, 'We have to wipe out the Taliban,' what does that mean? The Taliban is not a fixed number of people. The Taliban is an ideology that has sprung out of a history that, you know, America created anyway.