Everybody keeps saying that India's a poor country. Yes, we have poverty. But I blame the government of India, the political establishment, for their failure to educate and therefore their failure to control the poverty.

I don't like to leave anything unfinished on my desk before I travel.

I live life what I consider to be normal.

I think that the poorest of the poor... look up to wealthy and successful Indians with some degree of respect and pride.

My father was very clear; I had to have an ordinary upbringing. I was put to work as a lowly-paid trainee after college. I didn't like it at the time, but I can't help but feel that that was probably the best thing for me.

Banks are there to support businesses that have justifiable needs.

It's not quite right to be sitting outside India and to be judging what is happening in India.