There is not a thing as the wrong place, or the wrong time. We are where we are at the only time we have. Perhaps it's where we're meant to be.

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

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.

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

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.

Universality of the UN is a worthwhile thing in its own self because it means that every country belongs, feels it has a stake, and participates, rather than going away and finding other methods of conducting international relations.

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