I think whatever I've done, I hope I've earned a footnote in India's long and tortuous history.

I pray for that moment in which I think we can claim to the world that we are now in a different, new era of Indo-American relationship of trust, of working together, partnership strengthened both by our commitment to common values, and also the identity of interests.

Agribusiness and food processing are important parts of modernizing our economy, of modernizing our agriculture and moving into a phase where a more modernized agriculture helps not only farmers but also helps consumers.

We are a coalition government, and that limits our options in some ways. Privatization happens to be one such area.

I look upon India-U.S. nuclear cooperation as an act of historic reconciliation.

I have always regard nonalignment as a statement that India's policies, foreign policy will be guided by what I describe as enlightened national interest. That we will make judgments on an independent basis, with the sole concern being what is enlightened India's national interest. In that sense, nonalignment remains as relevant today as it was in the early 1950s.

India happens to be a rich country inhabited by very poor people.