Celebration of Independence Day with great pomp and show was quite appropriate when we were fighting for independence which we had neither seen nor handled. Now we have handled it and we seem to be disillusioned. At least - I am, even if you are not. What are we celebrating today? Surely, not our disillusionment.

As a rule I had a distaste for any reading beyond my school books.

A man is but the product of his thoughts what he thinks, he becomes.

Nobody can hurt me without my permission.

It is beneath human dignity to lose one's individuality and become a mere cog in the machine.

So long as untouchability disfigures Hinduism, so long do I hold the attainment of Swaraj to be an utter impossibility.

There is always the fear of self-righteousness possessing us, the fear of arrogating to ourselves a superiority that we do not possess.