Little events, ordinary things, smashed and reconstituted. Suddenly, they become the bleached bones of a story.

India's needs of energy are increasing at an explosive rate.

We have agreed to cooperate in civilian nuclear energy,

These terrorists wish to spread a sense of fear and suspicion among our peace-loving people,

He folded his fear into a perfect rose. He held it out in the palm of his hand. She took it from him and put it in her hair.

The people who created the crisis in the first place will not be the ones that come up with a solution.

As a woman who grew up in a village in India, I've spent my whole life fighting tradition. There's no way that I want to be a traditional Indian housewife.

If we were to lose the ability to be emotional, if we were to lose the ability to be angry, to be outraged, we would be robots. And I refuse that.

Use your art to fight.

Empathy may be the single most important quality that must be nurtured to give peace a fighting chance.

...a political struggle that does not have women at the heart of it, above it, below it, and within it is no struggle at all.

The only thing worth globalizing is dissent.

That's what careless words do. They make people love you a little less.

The trouble is that once you see it, you can't unsee it. And once you've seen it, keeping quiet, saying nothing, becomes as political an act as speaking out. There's no innocence. Either way, you're accountable.

Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing.

There's really no such thing as the 'voiceless'. There are only the deliberately silenced, or the preferably unheard.

We need a new kind of politics. Not the politics of governance, but the politics of resistance. The politics of opposition. The politics of joining hands across the world and preventing certain destruction.

Wars are never fought for altruistic reasons. They're usually fought for hegemony, for business. And then of course there's the business of war.

NGOs are dangerous. They do what the missionaries used to do in Colonial times. They are Trojan Horses. The worse the situation, the more the NGOs.