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

What economic libralisation needs, if it is to succeed , is a general acceptance that reforms are for the general good, that they might seem to help some more than others, but that in the long run everyone will benefit from them. Such attitude is far from being realized

The good terrorists are the guys who bomb and kill Indians. The bad terrorists are the ones who attack Pakistani interests, whether in Afghanistan or Pakistan. In other words, you blow up the Taj Mahal Hotel, you are a good guy. You blow up the Marriott in Islamabad, you are a bad guy.

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

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

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

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