For an individual as well as a society, there is a gulf between merely living and living worthily. To fight in a battle and live in glory is one mode. To beat a retreat, to surrender and to live the life of a captive is also a mode of survival.

Equality may be a fiction but nonetheless one must accept it as a governing principle.

If I find the constitution being misused, I shall be the first to burn it.

History shows that where ethics and economics come in conflict, victory is always with economics.

History shows that where ethics and economics come in conflict, victory is always with economics. Vested interests have never been known to have willingly divested themselves unless there was sufficient force to compel them.

Indians today are governed by two different ideologies. Their political ideal set in the preamble of the Constitution affirms a life of liberty, equality and fraternity. Their social ideal embodied in their religion denies them.

The sovereignty of scriptures of all religions must come to an end if we want to have a united integrated modern India.