8 Mar 2010, New Delhi

“Amma is in many ways the symbol of the power of love. And with Amma intellectualism is not the issue, she does not appeal at the level of the intellect. Very often she does not speak, it’s the hug and the love that comes through it. The fact that she means so much to so many people, the fact that she has done so much with that power…
I went to her ashram in Kerala and I have seen some of the relief work after the floods and the tsunami and the and I visited the university. There is a lot of social goodness that is being done by her in addition to the direct transmission of affection by her.
I have great respect for her and what she has accomplished. She is a great force of good in the world.”

– interview with Sashi Tharoor