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

If the economy grows enough, fast enough, the tech system should be modernized so that the tax revenues rise fast enough also, and we should put more money in education.

As the largest and most developed democracies of Asia (India and Japan), we have a mutual stake in each other's progress and prosperity.

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

My vision is to work for the relationship between India and Pakistan which would be like the relation between Canada and the United States.

We should put more money in health. We should put more money in devising credible social safety nets for the poor.

The Indian economy grew at 5.5 percent, but if you look at the last 30 years - for example, 1960 to 1985 - the progress made by East Asian countries was phenomenal. In a single generation they had been able to transform the character of their economy. They were able to get rid of chronic poverty.