If you look at Indian society, it's a society made up of minorities. There's nobody who's not a minority, whether it's ethnicity, caste or religion. But the whole effort now is to confect a political constituency - an ethnic or a religious constituency that can coalesce into a political majority in order to deal with this model of representative democracy. That process has been a hundred years in the making in this part of the world.

Excitement always leads to tears.

Nationalism of one kind or another was the cause of most of the genocide of the twentieth century.

But can we, should we, let apprehensions about the future immobilize us in the present?

Mao said he was prepared to have millions of Chinese people perish in a nuclear war as long as China survived... I'm beginning to find it more and more sick that only humans make it into our calculations... Annihilate life on earth, but save the nation... what's the subject heading? Stupidity or Insanity?

Poverty is a crime and the poor are terrorists

This was the trouble with families. Like invidious doctors, they knew just where it hurt.