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?

The writer is the midwife of understanding.

When I'm outside the cities I do feel optimistic. There is such grandeur in India and so much beauty.

Humans are animals of habit.

It is such a supreme folly to believe that nuclear weapons are deadly only if they're used.

Just a few years ago India, Pakistan and Bangladesh were one country. Actually, we were many countries if you count the princely states.... Then the British drew a line, and now we're three countries, two of them pointing nukes at each other - the radical Hindu bomb and the radical Muslim bomb.

Madness slunk in through a chink in History. It only took a moment.