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

Diplomacy is much like the "lovemaking of elephants", which is accompanied with a lot of bellowing and other sound effects, but no one can be sure of the consequences for at least the next two years

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

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

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

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

Terrorism is a principal preoccupation in most of our international contacts.