It is not what we learn in conversation that enriches us. It is the elation that comes of swift contact with tingling currents of thought. It is the opening of our mental pores, and the stimulus of marshaling our ideas in words, of setting them forth as gallantly and as graciously as we can.
Bio: Veena Pandey is an Indian politician who is a former member of the Uttar Pradesh Legislative Council. She was Student Union Vice President at Banaras Hindu University from 1982 83.
