Senior officials are always looking for good juniors, so when the opportunity comes, they give you the responsibilities.

Some amount of support from government and regulator is required when you are looking at resolving systemic issues.

A maturing process, and growth, is always painful. You ask any teenager, they will tell you, and it's just like that for the country. We need to grow; we need to evolve.

To tell you the truth, if you're looking at rising pretty high, then you need to find a way of taking care of these problems and not taking time off. At the end of the day, it is a very tough competition. And in a very tough competition, if you just take breaks, then it's going to become much, much more difficult.

If you go to any boardroom... the women are, by far, outnumbered by the men.

In any merger, the biggest challenge is always integration of human resources because the people who are coming in have a lot of apprehension.