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

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

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

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.

The Bio-diversity Convention has not yielded any tangible benefits to the world's poor.

I have a vision of India-an India free of hunger and fear, an India free of illiteracy and want.

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