When I took over, I thought that I must do something for the empowerment of women.

Women have talent and intelligence but, due to social constraints and prejudices, it is still a long distance away from the goal of gender equality.

India-Seychelles relations have been characterized by close friendship, understanding and cooperation.

All issues, therefore, must be resolved through dialogue and there can be no place for violence. Negativity and rejection cannot be the path for a vibrant country that is moving to seek its destiny.

The belief that government must be the ultimate nanny to our children is one of the fundamental philosophical disagreements between the Right and Left.

You have to have a certain realism that government is a pretty blunt instrument, and without the constant attention of highly qualified people with the right metrics, it will fall into not doing things very well.

Big money has hijacked our politics.

The public has a right to know what kind of monitoring the government is doing, and there should be a public discussion of the appropriate trade-offs between law enforcement and privacy rights.