If tomorrow the Chinese decide not to supply the world with raw materials, the pharma industry would collapse.

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

Alleviation of suffering is my fundamental principle.

Reducing the price of cancer drugs is a humanitarian move.

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.

If tomorrow the Chinese decide not to supply the world with raw materials, the pharma industry would collapse.