While growing up, I lived in a traditional joint family in Mumbai's suburbs.

Education is not a tool for development - individual, community and the nation. It is the foundation for our future. It is empowerment to make choices and emboldens the youth to chase their dreams.

Preventing female infanticide is equally important in protection of women's rights.

Indian classical dance is sustained by a profound philosophy. Form seeks to merge with the formless, motions seek to become a part of the motionless, and the dancing individual seeks to become one with the eternal dance of the cosmos.

Openness about death has led to greater care about all aspects of dying.

No one is to blame. It is neither their fault nor ours. It is the misfortune of being born when a whole world is dying.

Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.

That's the most terrible thing about being an author - standing there at your mother's funeral, but you don't switch the author off. So your own innermost thoughts are grist for the mill. Who was it said - one of the famous lady novelists - 'unhappy is the family that contains an author'?