As long as I can contribute, I'll continue working.

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

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

Clinton has played a major role in giving companies like Cipla credibility, for which I will always be grateful.

Reducing the price of AIDS drugs gave me so much satisfaction that I've been thinking what else I could do. One day, I thought, 'Let's look at cancer and see how we can spare cancer patients' unnecessary suffering.'

I had seen AIDS patients in India and Africa, and knowing that people were dying even though drugs existed that could help them was shattering for me.