Yes, the state must intervene to prevent the exploitation of poor Indian women who are enticed or coerced into surrogacy, as well as to protect the rights of surrogate children. However, it should also be empathetic to individuals with alternative lifestyles who are well within their legal and human rights to demand access to surrogacy services.

There is an urgent need for the Central government to take the lead in ensuring health and nutrition service delivery.

What the government and we in society need to do is to address the issue of gender justice.

Unless the issue of the empowerment of women is addressed, the practice of women being unfairly treated will remain unresolved.

India should be an exporter of technology.

While the Internet is important for us, India is also necessary for the Internet with its 1.2 billion population.

My voice is not good enough for me to sing a song.

Politics runs in every human being, and so does music.

When the state machinery defends criminals and the public prosecutors collude with the accused in certain cases and the victims are members of a particular community, then 'Justice to all' is empty rhetoric.

No one can end it, but incidents of corruption can be reduced.

If the Planning Commission said those who live above Rs 5,000 a month are not at poverty line, obviously there is something wrong with the definition of poverty in this country. How can anybody live at Rs 5,000?

By limiting access to surrogacy based on flimsy and exclusionary criteria, the government may just give rise to a mushrooming black market.

The mindset of a terrorist and the mindset of intolerance know no territorial boundaries when individuals are targeted either for their eating habits or for any other reason.

We are wedded to freedom of expression and shall do nothing to diminish that freedom.

In India, by and large, women are not educated enough to be bread winners and, within the moorings of traditional cultures, do not have the courage and the capacity to leave the matrimonial home. Given the inequality prevalent in family structures, the woman's right to opt out is suicidal.

All of us have a romantic streak in us. That's why we are fallible, aren't we?

There's a difference between those who breed terrorism and those who fight terrorism. This difference should be recognised by the people of India.

My abiding faith in the wisdom of our electorate is what gives me hope.

Modi may be rich in politics but is poor at heart.

We must make the government accept that at a time when we are expected to look ahead, we cannot afford to start discriminating against our own people in the name of 'ethos.'

Ownership is a very complex judicial concept.

Great research universities around the world are visible not just through their quality graduates but as knowledge creators and technology developers.

Can any sane person say that before something comes on the Net you must screen it? How can there be pre-screening?

Appointments to the higher judiciary must be through transparent processes, which ensure that persons of impeccable integrity and high competence are appointed to these positions.