“I deemed this award a tribute to the process of democracy throughout the free world, to the wisdom of millions of India’s electorate not always necessarily formally educated, to the millions of Indian voters who have overcome disabilities of economic status, social disability, poverty, and prejudice to walk into the ballot booth and use that little marking stamp to decidedly say who they want to rule over them.”
1996 Ramon Magsaysay Awardee TIRUNELLAI SESHAN accepts Asia’s Premier Prize and Highest Honor.