The Cannes Film Festival is the biggest, most prestigious film festival in the world. This is where filmmakers are discovered, where futures are made, and the most important films premiered.

There is no such thing as human perfection, and yet when you hear Lataji sing, you wonder how she sang that song so beautifully, so perfectly. Or, how Kumar Gandharva touched your soul so powerfully.

The equality of men and women is not possible because both are different. A mountain is a mountain, and a river is a river.

My mother was my pillar of strength.

Giving women education, work, the ability to control their own income, inherit and own property, benefits the society. If a woman is empowered, her children and her family will be better off. If families prosper, the village prospers, and eventually so does the whole country.

Apartheid education, rarely mentioned in the press or openly confronted even among once-progressive educators, is alive and well and rapidly increasing now in the United States.

I hope I've been able to show other young girls that as long as you work hard and you're committed to fight for your education, that anything's possible.

We've long believed teachers know best what their students need to succeed, and that includes the creation of healthy, supportive school communities.