The country is moving in a different direction, times have changed. But for me Gandhiji’s values are still the frame, still alive and valid. - Ela Bhatt

Teachers do not care…It is not because teachers are badly paid and the teachers are organized but they do not teach. If we don’t respect them it is because we see them doing other business than teaching.

…Poverty and violence are not God made, they are man made. Poverty and peace cannot coexist.

I grew up in the time around India’s independence, in the aura of a country fighting for its freedom. It was a heady and idealistic time, and we were all infected with a spirit of optimism, and the spirit of Gandhiji.