Poverty Is Not Just A Lack Of

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.

South Korea From A Country That Had Relatively Little Primary Education Became Close To Universal Literacy In The Course Of 25, 30 Years, In A Way Trying To Replicate What Japan Had Done Earlier. They Were Learning To Some Extent From The Japanese Experience Too. So I Think, In A Sense, The East Asians Were Following A Path, Which All Other Countries Including South Asia Could Follow But Chose Not Too.

The Fact That Schools Can Actually Be A Major Factor In Cementing The World Is A Factor That's Worth Considering, The Fact That We All Have A Shared Human Identity In Addition To Many Other Identities.

I Don’t Think That India Is Much Celebrated For Its Democracy. Democracy Has Been A Very Neglected Commodity At Home And Abroad.

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