The essence of Hinduism is that the path may be different, but the goal is the same.

Life is never free of contradictions

Agribusiness and food processing are important parts of modernizing our economy, of modernizing our agriculture and moving into a phase where a more modernized agriculture helps not only farmers but also helps consumers.

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.

India is a functioning democracy despite its extreme poverty, India has stayed the course.

We are a mixed economy. We will remain a mixed economy. The public and private sector will continue to play a very important role. The private sector in our country has very ample scope and I am confident that India's entrepreneurs have the capacity, and the will to rise to the occasion.

Nowhere else you will find a country of India's diversity, of India's complexity, one billion people trying to seek their social and economic salvation in the framework of democracy, in the framework of an open economy.