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

Let us together commence a journey of peace, harmony and progress in South Asia.

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

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

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

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.

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