I Remain Instinctively Hostile To

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

No Famine Has Ever Taken Place In The History Of The World In A Functioning Democracy.

If The Knowledge Of Torture Of Others Makes You Sick, It Is A Case Of Sympathy... It Can Be Argued That Behaviour Based On Sympathy Is In An Important Sense Egoistic, For One Is Oneself Pleased At Others' Pleasure And Pained At Others' Pain, And The Pursuit Of One's Own Utility May Thus Be Helped By Sympathetic Action.

There's No Reason Why One Need Not Look At The Content Of Education Just As One Is Expanding The Availability Of School, Because It Doesn't Cost More Money To Get Them [a] Better Education. It Requires Better Textbooks, It Requires A Vision, It Requires A Determination, But It's Not Very Expensive To Do That Anyway.

I Think In Those Countries, Including My Own In India, Where I Think Primary Education Has Been Badly Neglected By Successive Governments, I Blame The Opposition As Much. Why Have They Allowed The Government To Get Away With It?