The revolution cannot be funded. It's not the imagination of trusts and foundations that's going to bring real change..

I do what I do, and write what I write, without calculating what is worth what and so on. Fortunately, I am not a banker or an accountant. I feel tha….

The Congress has historically played covert communal politics in order to create what in India we call vote banks where you pit one community against….

To stay quiet is as political an act as speaking out..

Humbling was a nice word, Rahel thought. Humbling along without a care in the world.

This was the trouble with families. Like invidious doctors, they knew just where it hurt..

Your enemies are always manufactured to suit your purpose, right? How can you have a good enemy? You have to have an utterly evil enemy - and then th….

But remember that if the struggle were to resort to violence, it will lose vision, beauty and imagination. Most dangerous of all, it will marginalize….

You have come to a stage where you almost have to work on yourself. You know, on finding some tranquility with which to respond to these things, beca….

It's so frightening, the nationalism in the air..

Your short-term gains are the rest of the world's long-term disasters - for everybody, including yourselves. And, I'm sorry, I've been saying you and….

People can be extraordinarily resilient and show extraordinary grace and humour even in moments of tribulation. I've always found that it's much easi….

There was a time when the women of Afghanistan - at least in Kabul - were out there. They were allowed to study, they were doctors and surgeons, walk….

Nilekani's technocratic obsession with gathering data is consistent with that of Bill Gates, as though lack of information is what is causing world h….

Every time I say the word capitalism, everyone just assumes I have plenty of Marxism in me, I do. But Russia and China had their bloody revolutions a….

They all broke the rules. They all crossed into forbidden territory. They all tampered with the laws that lay down who should be loved and how. And h….

NGOs have a complicated space in neoliberal politics. They are supposed to mop up the anger. Even when they are doing good work, they are supposed to….

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 hous….

Pity the nation that has to silence its writers for speaking their minds. Pity the nation that needs to jail those who ask for justice, while communa….

Let's leave one alive so that it can be lonely..

A sparrow lay dead on the backseat. She had found her way through a hole in the windscreen, tempted by some seat-sponge for her nest. She never found….