You cannot achieve environmental security and human development without addressing the basic issues of health and nutrition.

I have always detested any departure from reality, an attitude which I relate to my mother's poor mental health.

When the Nobel award came my way, it also gave me an opportunity to do something immediate and practical about my old obsessions, including literacy, basic health care and gender equity, aimed specifically at India and Bangladesh.

The five different areas in which boys are in crisis - education jobs emotional health physical health and fatherlessness - are handled by different portions of the government.

Medical professionals, not insurance company bureaucrats, should be making health care decisions.