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

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

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.

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

We do not believe that a nuclear war should be fought, and we do not believe that a nuclear war can be won.

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.

Freedom is incomplete without social justice.