Three-quarters of India lives on the edge of the market economy. You can't tell them that only those who can afford water can have it.

Human beings seem unable to live without war, but they are also unable to live without love.

Money need not be our only reward.

People always loved best what they identified most with.

I am a Maoist sympathiser. I'm not a Maoist ideologue, because the communist movements in history have been just as destructive as capitalism.

There are things that you can't do - like writing letters to a part of yourself. To your feet or hair. Or heart.

In Delhi the cars are getting bigger and sleeker, the hotels are getting posher, the gates are getting higher, and the guards are no longer the old chowkidars, the watchmen, but they are fellows with guns. And yet the poor are packed into every crevice like lice in the city. People don't see that anymore. It's as if you shine a light very brightly in one place, the darkness deepens around.