Working together in helping nascent democracies in the task of reconstruction, in the task of development is another area where our two countries [India and the USA] can work together.

Democracy is good for world peace.

I believe all societies, all thriving societies of the future are going to be multicultural societies.

I am not very good at statistics. I am also a poor thinker.

We all know the epicentre of terrorism in the world today is Pakistan. The world community has to come to grips with this harsh reality.

So outside agriculture, in manufacturing and services, we must create a lot more jobs. But that also means that we must ensure that our systems of general education and technical education are in line with the job requirements that a more modern manufacturing and a more modern services sector would require.

In a world in which technology is changing at such a fast pace, where demand conditions change very fast, we need to look at a more innovative mechanism to cut down on this rigmarole of many tiers of decision-making processes.