What India needs most is a unified food law.

We should put more money in health. We should put more money in devising credible social safety nets for the poor.

If we have access to nuclear energy, that adds to our maneuverability in ensuring energy security as India marches on, on the path to accelerated development.

The Chinese economy is growing at the rate of 9 percent; the Indian economy growing at the rate of 8 percent - enormous I think opportunities for two-way flow of trade, technology and investment.

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.

If the economy is growing fast, there is call for a distributing income from the rich to the poor to to put in place social safety nets.

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