I recognize the United States is a superpower. It has various interests. It has to balance various things.

What India needs most is a unified food law.

If we have access to nuclear energy, that adds to our maneuverability in ensuring energy security as India marches on, on the path to accelerated development.

We have to walk on two legs. We have to create conditions in which manufacturing and services - the economy outside agriculture - move and move fast enough. And at the same time the working force that is available must have skills which will fit the kind of jobs which will be in demand.

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.

I believe a large part of humanity will draw appropriate lessons from what is the wave of the future in the 21st century.

India's saving rate will go up. India's investment rate will go up. And I believe that's a plus point.