If you are educated in English-medium schools, you get a better view of the world, develop more liberal values, have more gender sensitivity and become more forward looking. But you pay a price because you don't know your own language. — Javed Akhtar Copy Share Image
I am a secular rationalist Nationalist proud Indian who is inconvenient to both Hindu and Muslim communalists. — Javed Akhtar Copy Share Image
Words are not thoughts, just like bricks are not homes. But houses are made with bricks. If you have less bricks, you will make… — Javed Akhtar Copy Share Image
I genuinely believe that people who are in their 20s and 30s understand certain things that I don't. I have a lot to offer… — Javed Akhtar Copy Share Image
I am an atheist, I have no religious beliefs. And obviously I don’t believe in spirituality of some kind. — Javed Akhtar Copy Share Image
Jab jab dard ka baadal chhaya,Jab gham ka saya lehraaya Jab aansoo palkon tak aaya,Jab yeh tanha dil ghabraaya Hum ne dil ko yeh… — Javed Akhtar Copy Share Image
By the time I was 12, I had memorised hundreds of couplets. I could recite for hours poems written by others. I knew I… — Javed Akhtar Copy Share Image
Everything is now moving fast so communication has to be fast as well. But the tragedy is that we have attained this speed at… — Javed Akhtar Copy Share Image
Our real personality forms for ever before we are ten.Often it remains dormant because of other pressures but ultimately it takes over. — Javed Akhtar Copy Share Image
“If you plunder from west to east you are great like Alexander. if you do the same from east to west you are a… — Javed Akhtar Copy Share Image
Discussing religion was like discussing which cave will be better to live. If you want to follow a religion, follow any religion. It does… — Javed Akhtar Copy Share Image
