I Left Delhi, In 1971, Shortly After

I Attempted To See Famines As Broad "economic" Problems (concentrating On How People Can Buy Food, Or Otherwise Get Entitled To It), Rather Than In Terms Of The Grossly Undifferentiated Picture Of Aggregate Food Supply For The Economy As A Whole.

Imparting Education Not Only Enlightens The Receiver, But Also Broadens The Giver - The Teachers, The Parents, The Friends.

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.

We Must Go On Fighting For Basic Education For All, But Also Emphasize The Importance Of The Content Of Education. We Have To Make Sure That Sectarian Schooling Does Not Convert Education Into A Prison, Rather Than Being A Passport To The Wide World.

I Was Born In A University Campus And Seem To Have Lived All My Life In One Campus Or Another.