The foreign policy is not about changing mindsets. Foreign policy is about finding the common meeting points.

Learning from experience and learning from education, both are important. Your education & values decide how you learn from your experiences.

It is our social responsibility as citizens of India to help fulfil Gandhiji's vision of Clean India, by his 150th birth anniversary in 2019.

Our country talks a lot on corruption. Everyone advices each other over how to stay away from it. Even those people who are corrupt tend to give advice to others on how to deal with corruption.

I did not make any big speeches but acted upon working against corruption.

The 21st Century should be India's century but from 2004 to 2014 bad ideas and bad actions have affected the country adversely. Every day was a new bad day and there were new scandals. People were furious.

The India-Nepal border should not be a barrier but a bridge which helps bring prosperity to both sides.