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

If you have a rigidly controlled economy, cut off from the rest of the world by infinite protection, nobody has any incentive to increase productivity and to bring new ideas.

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

If the economy is not expanding, the redistribution of income becomes a zero-sum game. And therefore, all the class struggle - and it becomes much more vicious.

India's infrastructure has to be modernized, has to be expanded at a rate which will I think be consistent with the growth requirements.

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.

I'm a small person put in this big chair.