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.

There’s no longer a superpower standoff. But there are real problems that divide countries around the world. And the UN is still the place where we can get together and try and discuss them.

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.

If you believe in truth and cared enough to obtain it, you had to be prepared actively to suffer for it.

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

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.

No one says "Gee Whiz!" very much these days, of course, not even in America - both because that expression has long since been supplanted by others more colourful and less printable, and because our capacity for surprise has long since been dulled by a surfeit of sources.