For me, there is no such thing as a negative experience.

My impression of the American people can be summarized by a quotation from Benjamin Franklin, Those things that hurt instruct! I realised that people in this part of the world meet their problems head on. They attempt to get out of them rather than suffer them.

We have not invaded anyone. We have not conquered anyone. We have not grabbed their land, their culture, their history and tried to enforce our way of life on them.

While children are struggling to be unique, the world around them is trying all means to make them look like everybody else.

Do we not realize that self respect comes with self reliance?

A developed India by 2020, or even earlier, is not a dream. It need not be a mere vision in the minds of many Indians. It is a mission we can all take up - and succeed.

In India we only read about death, sickness, terrorism, crime.