India's infrastructure has to be modernized, has to be expanded at a rate which will I think be consistent with the growth requirements.

I think, overall, India is today on the move. The economic reforms that our salvation lies in - operating an open society, political system, an open economy, economic system - this has widespread support.

Yes, I think India's economy always has been a mixed economy, and by Western standards we are much more of a market economy than a public sector-driven economy.

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

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.

If you don't have a functioning financial system the world economy won't be revived. All the major economies have their responsibility to assist at a pace which is required to clean up the balance sheet of the banking system and to ensure that credit flows are resumed.

I do believe that the future of civilization belongs to those who would lay emphasis on working together instead of talking about clash of civilizations.