One can disagree with another viewpoint - or even a historical account - without mocking a fellow citizen's dignity and personal space. This is fraternity in action

An innovative nation is built by innovative children. This must be our obsessive goal. Our schooling system has to encourage our children to think and to tinker, not just to memorise and reproduce

Our aspiration must be to upgrade and enlarge our education system - and make it relevant to 21st century realities of the digital economy, genomics, robotics and automation.

Governments can bring in policies and laws to ensure justice to women - but these policies and laws can only be made effective by families and communities that must hear the voices of our daughters. We cannot shut our ears to their urgings for change.