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.

The premature migration of very large numbers of people from rural areas to urban areas can give rise to a lot of strains to the urban infrastructure, which can also create problems of crime - law-and-order problems.

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

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

[Urbanization] is the inevitable outcome of the processes of growth and the processes of modernization.

I have to create in India a macroeconomic environment where the employment in aggregate can go up at a handsome rate. Once that happens, people losing jobs in one sector will not mean that they will become perpetually unemployed. From one sector, they can move on to other sectors.

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