One lesson that every nation can learn from China is to focus more on creating village-level enterprises, quality health services and educational facilities.

Tell me, why is the media here so negative? Why are we in India so embarrassed to recognise our own strengths, our achievements? We are such a great nation. We have so many amazing success stories but we refuse to acknowledge them. Why?

I see a lot of patterns in our behavior as a nation that parallel a lot of other historical processes.

When a nation is surrounded by weaponized nations, she has to equip herself.

Literature is a comprehensive essence of the intellectual life of a nation.

Don't pretend to be a candle, be a moth. Know the power hidden in serving. We seem to have got stuck with external forms of politics and mistaking them to be nation-building. It is the sacrifices, toil and valour that and seldom shown or seen that truly makes a nation.