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Being Indian is not blood as much as it is culture.

I am neither a child, a young man, nor an ancient; nor am I of any caste.

Caste is not a physical object like a wall of bricks or a line of barbed wire which prevents the Hindus from co-mingling and which has, therefore, to be pulled down. Caste is a notion; it is a state of the mind.

But in view of the constitution, in the eye of the law, there is in this country no superior, dominant, ruling class of citizens. There is no caste here.

The caste systems of sex and race are interdependent and can only be uprooted together.

I cannot believe there is caste system in society; I cannot believe people are judged on the basis of their prosperity.

Caste is a delicate issue. It's ubiquitous, and we are full of it. We should start to change things from individual level. But when you go to people and deny caste, they may not react favourably. I think if a decisive percentage of people, especially elites, start marrying out of their caste, we may see a casteless India in a generation's time.

Ideas are fatal to caste.