The best and most evolved technologies are those that do not destroy the very base on which we live

I did my masters in elementary particles. But the foundations of elementary particles is quantum theory and there were too many conceptual problems around quantum theory that I couldn't live with. So I decided I was going to work on the foundations of quantum theory. That's what I did my Ph.D on.

Gandhi’s idea of swadeshi—that local societies should put their own resources and capacities to use to meet their needs as a basic element of freedom—is becoming increasingly relevant. We cannot afford to forget that we need self-rule, especially in this world of globalization.

It's a phenomenon that started in the United States in which corporations make claims on the life forms, biodiversity and innovations of other cultures by applying for patents on them.

In traditional agriculture, the soil is the mother. She's the mother who gives, to whom you must give back.

I think we will become disenchanted with the glamour of globalization.

It is from the Himalayan forests and ecosystems that I learned most of what I know about ecology.