If you look at the world's top 50 drugs being sold today, they are being marketed and sold by companies that did not invent them. I respect patents. I'll pay a royalty. But I shouldn't be denied the right to produce drugs for poor people at reasonable prices.

I believe that life-saving, essential drugs should be freely available and the innovator should be paid a suitable royalty payment for his invention.

Reducing the price of cancer drugs is a humanitarian move.

Alleviation of suffering is my fundamental principle.

AIDS today is not a death sentence. It can be treated as a chronic illness, or a chronic disease.

If you look at the world's top 50 drugs being sold today, they are being marketed and sold by companies that did not invent them. I respect patents. I'll pay a royalty. But I shouldn't be denied the right to produce drugs for poor people at reasonable prices.

Cipla has a strong professional management team, and we take team decisions. My brother has been working at Cipla since 1973.