“Modernity is kind of a tradition and tradition itself is not a rulebook. It's a dialogue and a dialectical process just as tradition affects us, we too affect tradition and culture, and we change it.”

“A generation is not defined by the options it has but by the choices it makes.”

“We think that history is created in the big things, in the big events, but history is also created in the small things that we do every day, in the personal choices we make to think or not to think...”

“The internet in general and social networking sites in particular are making people more reclusive than social.”

“For people who are not on a particular social networking site, it can seem like you're not even living on the same planet you're essentially not functioning in the same frame.”

“The characters so many Bollywood actresses portray are ultimately flat, uncomplicated, two-dimensional stock characters that typically range between the girl-next-door and the diva. They may be fla...”

“Education doesnt make you happy. Nor does freedom. We dont become happy just because were free if we are. Or because weve been educated if we have. But because education may be the means by which...”

“Because I trust in the ever-changing climate of the heart. (At least, today I feel that way.) I think it is necessary to have many experiences for the sake of feeling something; for the sake of bei...”

“The past has no power over the present moment.”

“Be Good-Do Good-Be One”

“Surrendering: The act of giving yourself entirely to a new self, and then let go of your personal freedom for the achievement of something greater than you had before, a new you, a new self, envisi...”

“I keep remembering one of my Guru's teachings about happiness. She says that people universally tend to think that happiness is a stroke of luck, something that will maybe descend upon you like fin...”

“To know India and her peoples, one has to know the monsoon. one has to know the monsoon. It is not enough to read about it in books, or see it on the cinema screen, or hear someone talk about it. I...”

“If you just sit and observe, you will see how restless your mind is. If you try to calm it, it only makes it worse, but over time it does calm, and when it does, there's room to hear more subtle th...”

“Sometimes a rut can be a comfortable place to be, but ours was full of too many differences and resentments to be wholly comfortable. I had always had my own way in the marriage about what wed do,...”