Karnik, Dr Kiran (2011), Creating a Caring Compassionate Community, Lecture delivered in CMS National Lecture Series on Analysing and Envisioning India, April, New Delhi: Nehru Memorial and Museum Library

The meanings of the words caring and compassionate have been long lost. Communities are increasingly becoming apathetic, divided increasingly on all kinds of lines, on all kinds of identities. For vital change, discrimination in the society based on religion, caste, community will have to be done away with.