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.

Freedom is incomplete without social justice.

The UN's unique legitimacy flows from a universal perception that it pursues a larger purpose than the interests of one country or a small group of countries.

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

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.

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

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