The death of distance. There is hardly any middle class family in India who doesn't have a son, a daughter, a son-in-law, a brother, a brother-in-law in the United States. That is a very powerful new bond.

What we need is a dialogue amongst civilizations.

I don't see, I think, any problems between India and the United States.

I am convinced the entrepreneurial spirit of the Indian people, if allowed to express itself freely in the marketplace, India will be all right.

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

India was a late comer to industrialization, and as such, we have contributed very little to the accumulation of greenhouse gas emissions that cause global warming. But we are determined to be part of the solution to the problem.

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