There are many similarities between India and America. If you look at the last few centuries, two things come to light. America has absorbed people from around the world and there is an Indian in every part of the world. This characterizes both the societies. Indians and Americans have coexistence in their natural temperament. India and the United States of America are bound together, by history and by culture. These ties will deepen further.

It is a matter of immense pride that never in history has there been a complaint against the Indian community from any society in the World. These values aren't small!

We need to embrace the change that digital connectivity can bring. Now, towns will come alongside places where optical fibre network is present.

Let us come together and think of ways India does not have to import but we export to the world.

Philosophically, I feel that India will progress only if we work as teams.

'Brand India' is built of 5 Ts - talent, tradition, tourism, trade and technology.

We need to give importance to skill development because this way we can end unemployment.