“I make no bones about the fact that India matters to me, and I would like to matter to India.”

“India shaped my mind, anchored my identity, influenced my beliefs, and made me who I am. ... India matters to me and I would like to matter to India.”

“The only possible idea of India is that of a nation greater than the sum of its parts.”

“In India we celebrate the commonality of major differences; we are a land of belonging rather than of blood.”

“India is not, as people keep calling it, an underdeveloped country, but rather, in the context of its history and cultural heritage, a highly developed one in an advanced state of decay.”

“...(It) is to one British colonial policy-maker or another that we owe the Boxer Rebellion, the Mau Mau insurrection, the Boer War, and the Boston Tea Party”

“They say every dog has its day, Ganapathi, but for this terrier twilight came before tea-time.”