I have nothing against romance. I believe that we must hold on to the right to dream and to be romantic. But an Indian village is not something that I would romanticize that easily.

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

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.

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.

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.

Ammu said that human beings were creatures of habit, and it was amazing the kind of things one could get used to.

...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.

She viewed ethnic cleansing, famine and genocide as direct threats to her furniture.

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

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.

The Sun never sets. It is we who rise think to shine.

Because in a split second, it's gone.

We will win with character, not with characters.

Robin Hood had it right.Humanity's deepest wish is to spread the wealth.

We desire to understand the world by giving names to the things we see, but these things are only the effects of something subtle.

I don't even know how to define myself. I'm a person who writes. It's something I enjoy, and hopefully people enjoy it as well.

Regeneration is a work of the omnipotent power of God, power that nothing can overcome or resist.

Genetic engineering has never been about saving the world, it's about controlling the world.

The world is filled with invisible realities. But, if people do not see or hear, then these realities do not exist.