Shakuntala Devi

Education is not just about going to school and getting a degree. It's about widening your knowledge and absorbing the truth about life.

Why do children dread mathematics? Because of the wrong approach. Because it is looked at as a subject.

Without mathematics, there's nothing you can do. Everything around you is mathematics. Everything around you is numbers.

I think that, in almost all human beings, there is buried a profound tribal instinct that makes us very susceptible to being aroused to patriotic fervour.

I'm interested in the psychological exploration of human nature, and it just happens to come in the form of film-making.