To me, my mother is very beautiful and the epitome of a woman. She knows how to balance a busy professional life with family life.

Three components - education, equality and empowerment - play an important and pivotal role in moving the country forward in every aspect.

I strongly feel about women's rights because I have been working for menstrual hygiene across India.

Women are equal to men.

If I can only be known as one thing, then, well, I guess it would be poet and performer and teacher.

As a student, I hadn't really been interested in architecture at all, but when I started teaching, it grew into me - rather than me growing into it.

Early education is the type of issue politicians nod their heads at, and then when it comes time to make a tough decision, a financial trade-off, inevitably it's about the first item tossed from the table.

Education is important. And the difference of the zip code you grow up in or the zip code you are born in and how you turn out really isn't fair to the kids of our world.