Civilizations have come and gone and, in spite of our vaunted progress, I am tempted to ask again and again, 'To what purpose?'

The spinning wheel is as much a necessity of Indian life as air and water.

The very essence of democracy is that every person represents all the varied interests which compose the nation.

Surely Islam has nothing to fear from criticism even if it be unreasonable.

My mother would tell me that the shortest cut to purification after the unholy touch was to cancel the touch by touching any Mussalman passing by.

A man who has broken with his past feels a different man. He will not feel it a shame to confess his past wrongs, for the simple reason that these wrongs do not touch him at all.

A true man of piety will consider himself a sinner and, therefore, untouchable.