It is also very engaging – and a delight – to go back to Bangladesh as often as I can, which is not only my old home, but also where some of my closest friends and collaborators live and work.

Sometimes the lack of substantive freedoms relates directly to economic poverty.

There are few subjects that match the social significance of women’s education in the contemporary world.

Prolixity is not alien to us in India. We are able to talk at some length.

Progress is more plausibly judged by the reduction of deprivation than by the further enrichment of the opulent.

Development consists of the removal of various types of unfreedoms that leave people with little choice and little opportunity of exercising their reasoned agency. The removal of substantial unfreedoms, it is argued here, is constitutive of development.

I was told Indian women don’t think like that about equality. But I would like to argue that if they don’t think like that they should be given a real opportunity to think like that.

The purely rational economic man is, indeed, close to being a social moron.

Unceasing change turns the wheel of life, and so reality is shown in all it’s many forms. Dwell peacefully as change itself liberates all suffering sentient beings and brings them great joy.

There is considerable evidence that women’s education and literacy tend to reduce the mortality rates of children.