There may be countries [where] there's no gender inequality in schooling, even in higher education, but [where there is] gender inequality in high bu….

Any classification according to a singular identity polarizes people in a particular way, but if we take note of the fact that we have many different….

Sometimes one makes a distinction between urgency and importance. And while disasters are urgent, the basically most important thing is education. An….

The lack of economic freedom could be a very major reason for loss of liberty, liberty of life..

There are Muslims of all kinds. The idea of closing them into a single identity is wrong..

We live in a world where there is a need for pluralistic institutions and for recognizing different types of freedom, economic, social, cultural, and….

There are some people who say that they’re concerned only with poverty but not inequality. But I don’t think that is a sustainable thought. A lot of ….

A defeated argument that refuses to be obliterated can remain very alive..

But the idea that I should be a teacher and a researcher of some sort did not vary over the years..

If you're dealing with grappling [with] problems of feeding people, the biggest impact in fertility reduction is girls' schools. Schooled girls make ….

Education makes human beings more articulate. It transforms people. You can think differently about the world. It makes it possible for you to get jo….

The market economy succeeds not because some people's interests are suppressed and other people are kept out of the market, but because people gain i….

To say that certainly America was very lucky to get a large amount of land, and the native Indians were extremely unlucky to have white men coming ov….

South Korea from a country that had relatively little primary education became close to universal literacy in the course of 25, 30 years, in a way tr….

Poverty is not really as much of an obstacle to educational expansion as it's sometimes made out to be..

The student community of Presidency College was also politically most active..

I don’t think that India is much celebrated for its democracy. Democracy has been a very neglected commodity at home and abroad..

Even though I’m pro-globalization, I have to say thank God for the anti-globalization movement. They’re putting important issues on the agenda..

The increasing tendency towards seeing people in terms of one dominant ‘identity’ (‘this is your duty as an American’, ‘you must commit these acts as….

Progress is more plausibly judged by the reduction of deprivation than by the further enrichment of the opulent.

It seems to me to be kind of inescapable that one has to be interested in the issue of gender and gender equality. I don’t really expect any credit f….