The British are the only people in history crass enough to have made revolutionaries out of Americans..

If America is a melting pot, then to me India is a thali--a selection of sumptuous dishes in different bowls. Each tastes different, and does not nec….

On Gandhi: Don’t ever forget, that we were not lead by a saint with his head in clouds, but by a master tactician with his feet on the ground..

India has been born and reborn scores of times, and it will be reborn again. India is forever, and India is forever being made..

What economic libralisation needs, if it is to succeed , is a general acceptance that reforms are for the general good, that they might seem to help ….

Hindu fundamentalism is a contradiction in terms, since Hinduism is a religion without fundamentals; there is no such thing as a Hindu heresy. How da….

Diplomacy is much like the "lovemaking of elephants", which is accompanied with a lot of bellowing and other sound effects, but no one can be sure of….

This is the one international institution we have in which governments get together to work collectively for a common purpose. International crises, ….

Terrorism is a principal preoccupation in most of our international contacts..

In India we celebrate the commonality of major differences; we are a land of belonging rather than of blood..

There is not a thing as the wrong place, or the wrong time. We are where we are at the only time we have. Perhaps it's where we're meant to be..

Resolutions aren't self-executing. Somebody has to provide the soldiers, take the risks, risk their blood and their treasure to go out and implement ….

A philosopher is a lover of wisdom, not of knowledge, which for all its great uses ultimately suffers from the crippling effect of ephemerality. All ….

The good terrorists are the guys who bomb and kill Indians. The bad terrorists are the ones who attack Pakistani interests, whether in Afghanistan or….

India is not, as people keep calling it, an underdeveloped country, but rather, in the context of its history and cultural heritage, a highly develop….

No one says "Gee Whiz!" very much these days, of course, not even in America - both because that expression has long since been supplanted by others ….

India is more than a sum of its contradictions, any truism about India can be contradicted with another truism. There is no fixed stereotype. But eve….

Im not a techno-determinist. I believe we need to improve our existing human resources, and technology can only be a complement..

I make no bones about the fact that India matters to me, and I would like to matter to India..

Freedom of the press is the mortar that binds together the bricks of democracy -- and it is also the open window embedded in those bricks..

If you believe in truth and cared enough to obtain it, you had to be prepared actively to suffer for it..