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

On Gandhi: Don’t ever forget, that we were not lead by a saint with his head in clouds, but by a master tactician with his feet on the ground.

Western dictionaries define secularism as absence of religion but Indian secularism does not mean irreligiousness.It means profusion of religions.

India is not, as people keep calling it, an underdeveloped country, but rather, in the context of its history and cultural heritage, a highly developed one in an advanced state of decay.

Resolutions aren't self-executing. Somebody has to provide the soldiers, take the risks, risk their blood and their treasure to go out and implement such a resolution.

Im not a techno-determinist. I believe we need to improve our existing human resources, and technology can only be a complement.

I make no bones about the fact that India matters to me, and I would like to matter to India.