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

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.

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.

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

In income tax, there is no case for amnesty.

The police force cannot be completely independent of the executive government.

'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.