Globalization can be very unjust and unfair and unequal, but these are matters under our control. It’s not that we don’t need the market economy. We need it. But the market economy should not have priority or dominance over other institutions.

Globalization can be very unjust and unfair and unequal, but these are matters under our control. It’s not that we don’t need the market economy. We need it. But the market economy should not have priority or dominance over other institutions.

Amartya Sen

Even now I try to make each page compelling for the readers to get absorbed in the book.

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 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 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 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 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.

The word “future” and females is a dangerous combination.

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!

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!

Marble flooring is to a Punjabi what a foreign degree is to a Tamilian.

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.

Sometimes life is not about what u want to do but what u ought to do.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

The governments and the hard-headed military establishment and the general conservative part of America have never taken much interest in democracy, anyway.

Sometimes the lack of substantive freedoms relates directly to economic poverty, which robs people of the freedom to satisfy hunger; or to achieve sufficient nutrition, or to obtain remedies for treatable illnesses or the opportunity to be adequatley clothed or sheltered, or to enjoy clean water or sanitary facilities.

Sometimes the lack of substantive freedoms relates directly to economic poverty, which robs people of the freedom to satisfy hunger; or to achieve sufficient nutrition, or to obtain remedies for treatable illnesses or the opportunity to be adequatley clothed or sheltered, or to enjoy clean water or sanitary facilities.

Each human being is a citizen of the world. We have many identities, of which one of the identities is our human identity. And that's something that the schools can provide, but that requires again a vision rather than being centers of hatred. It could be an enormous opportunity to give that mission.

Each human being is a citizen of the world. We have many identities, of which one of the identities is our human identity. And that's something that the schools can provide, but that requires again a vision rather than being centers of hatred. It could be an enormous opportunity to give that mission.

we must go on fighting for basic education for all, but also emphasize the importance of the content of education. We have to make sure that sectarian schooling does not convert education into a prison, rather than being a passport to the wide world.

we must go on fighting for basic education for all, but also emphasize the importance of the content of education. We have to make sure that sectarian schooling does not convert education into a prison, rather than being a passport to the wide world.