The salvation of the world ultimately lies in moving towards universal nuclear disarmament, but that's a long distance away.

My top most priority is to deal with India's massive social and economic problems, so that chronic poverty, ignorance and disease can be conquered in a reasonably short period of time.

The premature migration of very large numbers of people from rural areas to urban areas can give rise to a lot of strains to the urban infrastructure, which can also create problems of crime - law-and-order problems.

I can assure you we are a responsible nuclear power.

When I became finance minister in 1991, I discovered that the wealth tax rates income - there was taxation on wealth. It was so atrocious and so high that actually nobody could accumulate money in an honest way. I removed that tax, and the result was that Indian companies for the first time acquired an incentive to grow big, to grow rich.

I believe whether it is the United States or Europe, they will all end up as multicultural societies.

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