Rajmohan Gandhi in conversation with Dr Hitendra Wadhwa, Adjunct Professor of Practice, Columbia Business School, and Founder & President, Mentora Institute.

As individuals and in their homes, holders of state office can practise or permit rituals of their choice. However, as government servants and in public, they are obliged by our Constitution to refrain from promoting any religion or slighting any religion.

He invites respect, not rivalry. He is seasoned in politics and experienced in governance

Indians, Nigerians and Brazilians can learn from one another how a large country's diversity may be turned into wealth and strength.

Killing the thought that India belongs to everyone, killing the historical truth that Gandhi underlined that thought, and killing the connected historical truth that Gandhi was murdered above all for that underlining — those are impossible exercises.

Unfairness often descends from above, from those with power, but around us are compatriots who want everyone's dignity to be respected.

Why are leaders not answering the simplest of questions? The silence does not bode well for India's traditions of debate and dissent

To call a garden "Mughal" was to describe the garden, not to memorialise a dynasty.

It is the inalienable right of any and every Indian to fight for dignity, equality, and liberty, and, simultaneously, offer fraternity to his or her compatriots. A Muslim Indian’s right to do this is not less than that of a Hindu. Not one nanogram less.

There's a difference between the zahreeli hawa of 1947 and today's heady mix of contempt and arrogance - of nafrat and ghamand. Hurts caused by real injuries may heal with time, or they may be set aside by wisdom, or by the warnings of our conscience.