One of India's major blessings is the rich store of experience and knowledge available in the rural and tribal areas.

Land is becoming a diminishing resource for agriculture, in spite of a growing understanding that the future of food security will depend upon the sustainable management of land resources as well as the conservation of prime farmland for agriculture.

In India, unlike in the United States and Australia, agriculture is not just a food producing enterprise but also the backbone of the livelihood security of nearly 60 per cent of the population.

Rain harvesting should be made mandatory and should be made more systematic to ensure that every drop of rain is preserved.

They can kill me, but they cannot kill my ideas. They can crush my body, but they cannot crush my spirit.

Meciless criticism and independent thinking are the two necessary traits of revolutionary thinking.

Freedom is not worth having if it does not include freedom to make mistakes.

Every tiny molecule of ash is in motion with my heat. I am such a lunatic that I am free even in jail.

The sword of revolution is sharpened on the whetting stone of ideas.

That which is invisible, ungraspable, unoriginated and attributeless, that which has neither eyes not ears nor hands nor legs - that is Eternal, full of manifestations, all-pervading subtlest of the subtle - that impreshiable Being is what the wise perceive as the source of all creation.