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

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.

Our nuclear weapons are meant purely as a deterrent against nuclear adventure by an adversary.

Freedom is incomplete without social justice.

The reality is that international institutions like the UN can only be as effective as its members allow it to be.

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.