The biggest challenge at the national level is to defeat communal forces for which the support of the Left parties was essential but the party is opposed to the Left in Kerala because UDF's aim is to ensure economic development and social harmony.

The Maharashtra government is working out a package for the worst-affected villages of the state in the recent floods. But we know whenever such calamities occur; whatever we do is not enough...more has to be done.

An economy growing at 7 percent per year, can and must find the resources to improve the lives of its millions of poor.

I am resigning my post in the parliament. I have done this because I think it is the right thing to do.

It was through the private world of family that the public world of politics came alive for me: living in intimate proximity with people for whom larger questions of ideology and belief, as well as issues relating to politics and governance, were vivid daily realities.

My complaint with Dr Singh is that he sometimes does not highlight his achievements enough.

I suppose, mother-in-laws are frightening figures. Especially, more so for mother-in-laws to be.