The poor get bored the same as the rest of us. Their happiness might be as important to them as their health.

The differences in income between the poor world and the rich world are so great that people have to be interested.

Paternalism is everywhere in our lives. We have to immunise our children unless we are upset about it. In India, it is the opposite. It is possible to get your kids immunised, but you really have to want to.

The logic is that when you provide schools or any social service to people, they have no choice. They have to take what you give them, because they don't have the money to pay for schools themselves; that's why you provide schools in the first place.

In a way, it has been an advantage for me to be a woman because there is always some academic committee that needs you to fill a quota!

For millions of girls around the world, motherhood comes too early. Those who bear children as adolescents suffer higher maternal mortality and morbidity rates, and their children are more likely to die in infancy.