'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.

I respect the view of a rating agency, but I do not make a budget for the rating agency. I make a budget for the people of India.

Today, to allege corruption seems to be the pastime of most people. All kinds of allegations are leveled. I think it is self-defeating.

People are wiser than we are willing to attribute to them.

A government can do only what is feasible given the political and economic context.

When I came back to India after Harvard Business School, I started as a lawyer and as a trade union leader.

Police can only act on intelligence.