India has been born and reborn scores of times, and it will be reborn again. India is forever, and India is forever being made.

In India we celebrate the commonality of major differences; we are a land of belonging rather than of blood.

The only possible idea of India is that of a nation greater than the sum of its parts.

India shaped my mind, anchored my identity, influenced my beliefs, and made me who I am. ... India matters to me and I would like to matter to India.

Freedom of the press is the mortar that binds together the bricks of democracy -- and it is also the open window embedded in those bricks.

India has been born and reborn scores of times, and it will be reborn again. India is forever, and India is forever being made.

In writing of Indian culture, I am highly conscious of my own subjectivity; arguably, there is more than one Indian culture, and certainly more than one view of Indian culture.