I don't think we should label budgets even before the budget is presented.

'Big business' was a bad phrase in India. To be accused of being big business was the worst accusation you could make. All that has gone now. The whole mindset has changed.

It is possible that, post-Kyoto, the developed countries will recognise the requirements of the developing world.

The voter does not vote only on one issue, the voter votes on a multiplicity of issues.

Growth is a panacea for many ills in society; not entirely, but many.

People understand what is good for them in the long run. In the long run, what is good for people is that India's economy continues to grow at clipping pace, 8% and above, that itself brings host of benefits to the people. It brings better roads, it brings better schools, brings more money to the communities, it brings more jobs.

Let me tell you, very frankly, when I went to the Harvard Business School I was more or less a committed socialist.