Postwar U.S. was the world's leader in science and technology. The investment in science research was staggering.

I had seen cancer at a more cellular level as a researcher. The first time I entered the cancer ward, my first instinct was to withdraw from what was going on - the complexity, the death. It was a very bleak time.

Postwar U.S. was the world's leader in science and technology. The investment in science research was staggering.

I believe the biggest breakthroughs on cancer could come from brilliant researchers based in India.

Most discoveries even today are a combination of serendipity and of searching.

There is a very moving and ancient connection between cancer and depression.

I left Delhi in 1989 and remember very little of how life used to be then. Increasingly, in my recent visits to Delhi, I've started to realize that the city has become intellectually very lively. It makes me want to discover the city over and over again.