In relationship there are always two types of person: one weaker and the other stronger one. It’s never easier to live being as weaker one!
Admiration passes, love endures.
Certificates from top US universities adorned the walls like tiger head in a hunter’s home.
I think original voices get noticed. But most importantly, I think you should have a story to tell.
Even now I try to make each page compelling for the readers to get absorbed in the book.
The real middle class India that has always been looking for a voice that is its very own. I write about it because I belong to it.
The world’s most funniest and easiest thing is to give an advice...
The world’s most sensible person and the biggest idiot both stay within us. The worst part is, you can’t even tell who is who.
The younger generation is surrounded by the Internet, apps, and video games. But somehow, my books make them read.
The word “future” and females is a dangerous combination.
Marble flooring is to a Punjabi what a foreign degree is to a Tamilian.
Sometimes life is not about what u want to do but what u ought to do.
Globalization can be very unjust and unfair and unequal, but these are matters under our control. Its not that we dont need the market economy. We need it. But the market economy should not have priority or dominance over other institutions.
We need to ask the moral questions: Do I have a right to be rich? And do I have a right to be content living in a world with so much poverty and inequality? These questions motivate us to view the issue of inequality as central to human living.
Human development, as an approach, is concerned with what I take to be the basic development idea: namely, advancing the richness of human life, rather than the richness of the economy in which human beings live, which is only a part of it.
The best hope for peace in the world lies in the simple but far-reaching recognition that we all have many different associations and affiliations, and we need not see ourselves as being rigidly divided by a single categorization of hardened groups, which confront each other.
I really do believe that education, despite this massive potential in transforming human lives, has not received the kind of attention that people should have given to it.
The exchange between different cultures can not possibly be seen as a threat, when it is friendly. But I believe that the dissatisfaction with the overall architecture often depends on the quality of leadership.
The governments and the hard-headed military establishment and the general conservative part of America have never taken much interest in democracy, anyway.