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

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

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

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.

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.

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