I am really honoured but if the prize had gone to Mahatma Gandhi before me I would have been more honoured

I refuse to accept that the world is so poor, when just one week of global spending on armies is enough to bring all of our children into classrooms.

I am really honoured but if the prize had gone to Mahatma Gandhi before me I would have been more honoured

Child labor perpetuates poverty, unemployment, illiteracy, population growth and other social problems.

We adults, our policies, our ways of governance, are responsible for poverty, not the children.

Childhood means simplicity. Look at the world with the child's eye - it is very beautiful.

India has hundreds of problems and millions of solutions.