Democracy Is A Universal Value

Famines Are Easy To Prevent If There Is A Serious Effort To Do So, And A Democratic Government, Facing Elections And Criticisms From Opposition Parties And Independent Newspapers, Cannot Help But Make Such An Effort. Not Surprisingly, While India Continued To Have Famines Under British Rule Right Up To Independence... They Disappeared Suddenly With The Establishment Of A Multiparty Democracy And... A Free Press And An Active Political Opposition Constitute The Best Early-warning System A Country Threaten By Famines Can Have.

But The Idea That I Should Be A Teacher And A Researcher Of Some Sort Did Not Vary Over The Years.

Human Life Depends Not Only On Income But Also On Social Opportunities, [for Example] What The State Does For Educating.

I Think Education Has A Bigger Impact On The Lives Of People Than Absolutely Anything Else.

Education Could Be A Great Vehicle For Gender Equity. It Allows People To See What Your Rights Are By Reading. Quite Often Women, For Example, May Have Rights That They Are Not In The Position To Actually Make Use Of.