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.

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

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.

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.

It's not the side of the bigger army that wins. It's the country that tells a better story.

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.