There never is a good time for tough decisions. There will always be an election or something else. You have to pick courage and do it. Governance is about taking tough, even unpopular, decisions.

India has a responsibility to itself to fight Climate Change

If there is a Nobel prize for dirt and filth, India will win it, no doubt.

WTO is not the forum for labour standards. Next, the U.S. will argue the time zone difference is an unfair competitive advantage enjoyed by India that enables our software engineers to work while the Americans sleep.

Agitation is all about poetry, governance is all about prose.

Governments can't keep looking over the shoulder or at the constellation of stars. You have got to do what you have got to do.

Industrialisation is necessary. But acquisition is by no means the only avenue through which it can be achieved. The Cochin Airport is a prime example of this. Instead of choosing to acquire the land, the State asked the private parties to negotiate with the landowners directly. The State merely acted as an arbitrator.