I should like to express our profound gratitude to the Americans of Indian origin. The way they have conducted themselves, the way they have worked hard to carve out a niche for themselves in the Silicon Valley, I think this has also given America a new idea about what India is capable of.

As the largest and most developed democracies of Asia (India and Japan), we have a mutual stake in each other's progress and prosperity.

Because the Chinese insistence on one child, I think the proportion of older, non-working age population is going to rise sharply in China.

India's saving rate will go up. India's investment rate will go up. And I believe that's a plus point.

Economic policy and decision making do not function in a political vacuum.

I do recognize that India has to be the center, the hub of activity as far as the knowledge economy is concerned.

The emergence of India as a major global power is an idea whose time has come.