But The Idea That I Should Be

One Has To Be Realistic. One’s Concern For Equity And Justice In The World Must Not Carry One Into The Alien Territory Of Unreasoned Belief. That’s Very Important.

Poverty Is Not Just A Lack Of Money; It Is Not Having The Capability To Realize One's Full Potential As A Human Being

When The Nobel Award Came My Way, It Also Gave Me An Opportunity To Do Something Immediate And Practical About My Old Obsessions, Including Literacy, Basic Health Care And Gender Equity, Aimed Specifically At India And Bangladesh.

But Once We Recognize That Many Ideas That Are Taken To Be Quintessentially Western Have Also Flourished In Other Civilizations, We Also See That These Ideas Are Not As Culture-specific As Is Sometimes Claimed. We Need Not Begin With Pessimism, At Least On This Ground, About The Prospects Of Reasoned Humanism In The World.

Every Time You Have An Opportunity Of Opening A School, Its Fee And Funding Is Really Relatively Small In Comparison With The Big Expenditure, Which Is Basically Quote Unquote Defense. I Think If There Were Fees, Progress Could Be Very Much Faster. But For That We Need Not Only The Government In Different Countries To Understand It But The Society To Put Pressure On It, The Parents To Understand That Their Desire To Have Their Children Educated Can Actually Be Realized, And It Could Make A Dramatic Difference.