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

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

The British are the only people in history crass enough to have made revolutionaries out of Americans.

India shaped my mind, anchored my identity, influenced my beliefs, and made me who I am. ... India matters to me and I would like to matter to India.

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

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

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