Poverty is multidimensional. It extends beyond money incomes to education, health care, political participation and advancement of one's own culture and social organisation.

Did Indira Gandhi ask for somebody's permission to carry out the test in 1974?

We do not believe that a nuclear war should be fought, and we do not believe that a nuclear war can be won.

Global interdependence today means that economic disasters in developing countries could create a backlash on developed countries.

If you do not like anything in a particular book, then sit and discuss it. Banning a book is not a solution. We have to tackle it ideologically.

People who ask us when we will hold talks with Pakistan are perhaps not aware that over the last 55 years, every initiative for a dialogue with Pakistan has invariably come from India.

In the euphoria after the Cold War, there was a misplaced notion that the UN could solve every problem anywhere.