If you can't say what you want to say, it is democratic form without substance. The principle worth imbibing is: give me freedom or give me death.

Masani valued butter in the classic guns versus butter debate as it corresponded to India’s nuclear policy under the PM Lal Bahadur Shastri.

Is proper on the part of the State just because it feels that it can improve its financial resources, to take over any existing well-conducted private enterprise?

Globalisation is not increasing poverty, but in fact an efficient way of reducing human poverty.

The economic development of the country must be a continuous process.

Is it possible to have freedom of expression which is not absolute? The answer is a big 'no.' Freedom of expression ought to be absolute - or it is no freedom at all. 

Masani clearly saw the Emergency’s threat to liberal democracy and opposed different manifestations of the threat.

Sastri asserted, “We want political power; let there be no mistake about it. We want the right to rule ourselves.”

Man is first and foremost a being endowed with the power of independent thought and action, and with the ability to distinguish right from wrong.

The identification and acknowledgment of the layers of oppression Dalit women face becomes crucial to achieve individual fundamental rights.