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

Freedom is incomplete without social justice.

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

The overwhelming public sentiment in India was that no meaningful dialogue can be held with Pakistan until it abandons the use of terrorism as an instrument of its foreign policy.

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

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

You can change friends but not neighbours.