What does Yagwavalkya say?’It is not our hermitage,’ he says—our religion ,we might say—’still less the colour of our skin, that produces virtue ; virtue must be practised. Therefore let no one do to others...

Truthfulness is a luxury, perhaps the greatest, and let me assure you, the most expensive luxury in our life—and happy the man who has been able to enjoy it from his very child hood.

Why do we want to know history? Why does history form a recognized part of our liberal education? Simply because all of us, and every one of us, ought to know how we have come...

Childhood has its secrets and its mysteries; but who can tell or who can explain them!

The true history of the world must always be the history of the few; and as we measure the Himalaya by the height of Mount Everest, we must take the true measure of India from...