Jawaharlal Nehru wanted India to develop close ties with China and learn from its experience.

What we need is a dialogue amongst civilizations.

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.

No nation, no society, no community can hold its head high and claim to be part of the civilized world if it condones the practice of discriminating against one half of humanity represented by women.

Outsourcing, information technology revolution, the access to India's human resources, India's pool of scientists. It will help American companies to become leaner, meaner, more efficient, and they become more competitive, both in the United States and in dealing with the rest of the world.

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

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.