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

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

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.

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

We believe that the United States and the rest of the international community can play a useful role by exerting influence on Pakistan to put a permanent and visible end to cross-border terrorism against India.

You can change friends but not neighbours.

There was an implicit conviction that the UN would be stronger than the sum of its constituent member-states.