Quotes from Jean Dreze

The most startling aspect of the nutrition situation in India is that it is not much of an issue in public debates and electoral politics.

Development is, ultimately, the progress of human freedom and capability to lead the kind of lives that people have reason to value.

We cannot prove that privileged owe something to the rest, any more than we can prove that theft is wrong.

Pablo Picasso once remarked, 'One starts to get young at the age of sixty.

Much else than liberalization has happened in the nineties (in India)

The government can't get away with large-scale famine, but it can get away with chronic hunger. It has become an accepted part of life in India.