Rohini Nilekani

In India, the concentration of wealth is in a few hands.

— Rohini Nilekani

My mission is to put a book in every child's hand.

— Rohini Nilekani

Children's ability to learn is infinite when they are engaged.

— Rohini Nilekani

The Giving Pledge is not meant to be prescriptive or restrictive.

— Rohini Nilekani

We all require equal access to the justice system.

— Rohini Nilekani

Indian philanthropy doesn't take enough risk.

— Rohini Nilekani

India's water challenges are intractable, messy and perennial.

— Rohini Nilekani

I was never the feisty kind of activist.

— Rohini Nilekani

We have to get smarter about our cities. Especially when it comes to the most basic of public services - water supply.

— Rohini Nilekani

Climate change is already upon us, and its effects are being felt with increasing intensity.

— Rohini Nilekani

Poor governance affects us all - entrepreneurs, homemakers, farmers, labourers, whatever identities we might have.

— Rohini Nilekani

Frontiersman ideas of individualism stand exposed as we realise just how much our actions impact others.

— Rohini Nilekani

I came from a seedha-saadha middle class family in Mumbai. The Infosys story changed our life drastically but we have remained the…

— Rohini Nilekani

For centuries, prosperity has been easy to define in material terms. At a personal level, by how much one earns; how much…

— Rohini Nilekani

It was only in 2001 that I set up a foundation, Arghyam. That was pretty much to learn the ropes of how…

— Rohini Nilekani

What works at scale may be different from scaling what works. Pilots often succeed, while scale-up often fails when the context changes.

— Rohini Nilekani

Among the most important lessons to be taken from the history of oil is not taking essentials for granted. Conserve oil, but…

— Rohini Nilekani

As citizens, we have to co-create good governance, we cannot outsource it and hope to be passively happy consumers. Like everything worth…

— Rohini Nilekani

Because of its gradient, it is the site of many spectacular waterfalls, like the Unchalli Falls, near which, on a full moon…

— Rohini Nilekani

When 9/11 happened, it changed things overnight, giving the biggest shock treatment to individual agency. People in the U.S., the absolute stronghold…

— Rohini Nilekani

Often, our laws and policies reflect patriarchal biases that can trap men in stereotypes - for example, the idea of guarding the…

— Rohini Nilekani

Is water the next oil? Motives behind the question vary, depending on who asks the question. Those who see water as a…

— Rohini Nilekani

Climate change and air pollution know no borders, and antibiotics resistance respects no boundaries. Bacteria from Africa can make people in America…

— Rohini Nilekani

As we celebrate a culture of giving, however, we must also sharpen the question of how extreme wealth generation happens in the…

— Rohini Nilekani

Water is ultimately a finite resource. With all finite resources, there is a continuous need for sustainable and equitable management, by capping…

— Rohini Nilekani

In this great nation of saints and poets, public administrators and ingenious architects, has our national and local imagination shrunk so much…

— Rohini Nilekani

In the ideal world, philanthropy should be redundant or at least it should be at the edges, as innovation or risk capital.…

— Rohini Nilekani

The Indian elite send their children to expensive private schools, bypassing the public school system. They have their own infrastructure for water,…

— Rohini Nilekani

As a philanthropist, I fund a lot of NGOs.

— Rohini Nilekani

Everything does not have to be a commodity.

— Rohini Nilekani

One size doesn't fit all, and I don't have a monopoly over good ideas.

— Rohini Nilekani

We cannot imagine democracies without a vibrant civil society.

— Rohini Nilekani

With India going digital, we have a massive and dangerous e-waste problem.

— Rohini Nilekani

Luckily, water, though finite, is infinitely renewable.

— Rohini Nilekani

Climate change has the potential to swallow up all other issues of development.

— Rohini Nilekani

Being near a water source can determine lives, livelihoods and prosperity.

— Rohini Nilekani

We often destroy ecology-based livelihoods in the name of employment creation.

— Rohini Nilekani

No doubt there are dangers involved in letting children go online unsupervised.

— Rohini Nilekani

We all want and need the rule of law to be upheld.

— Rohini Nilekani

People have to clearly see the connection between their family's health and their sanitation habits.

— Rohini Nilekani