If my drug Ragaglitazar had been successful, we would have been getting royalties of thousands of crore rupees every year.

I had seen a Pfizer's pilot plant in 1965 and decided that, 'I'll build a Pfizer.' If not Pfizer, I have built Dr Reddy's, which is no less respectable.

My father used to administer herbal medicine for free. But I can't give drugs for free. So the next best thing is to give it at as low a price as possible.

This is my life... I mean, maybe I have Rs 100 crore in the bank, sitting comfortably. If that increases to Rs 10,000 crore, what difference does it make to me.

We must show there is good in society. If you read the newspapers, you think there are only crooks in this world, but that's not true.

To start with, pharma was an industry based on innovation, drug discovery.