Bureaucracy is simultaneously the most crippling of Indian diseases and the highest of Indian art forms. - Shashi Tharoor

Hinduism, with its openness, its respect for variety, its acceptance of all other faiths, is one religion that should be able to assert itself without threatening others.

Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code and the Criminal Tribes Act of 1871 target the transgender community as well as the homosexual community. They violate the Indian ethos and the traditions of perhaps at least 2,000 years of Indian cultural practice, mythology, history, the Puranas, and Indian ways of living.

Pakistan was created by Jinnah’s will and Britain’s willingness’ — not by Nehru’s wilfulness.