Growth is a panacea for many ills in society; not entirely, but many.

Growth is widely thought to be the panacea for all the major economic ills of the modern world.

But of all the instances of error arising from this physical fancy, the worst is that we have before us: the habit of exhaustively describing a social sickness, and then propounding a social drug.

I readily concede that a prime minister is not required to speak on every occasion or on every subject, but when there is a duty to speak, silence is unacceptable. Silence can be a strategy, silence can be a tactic, but silence can never be an answer to the ills of our polity and the fault lines of our society.

Today, to allege corruption seems to be the pastime of most people. All kinds of allegations are leveled. I think it is self-defeating.

If you go back to any period in India's history, all the hard decisions this country had to take were taken when the Congress was in power.