The government's track record in relief and rehabilitation policy is miserable and there is a need for a proper policy and implementation to ensure proper rehabilitation which usually does not take place at the grass root level.

I think environmentalists do no service to their cause by taking fundamentalist stances. I am not defending corporate India's track record, but for many environmental problems, there are technological solutions.

If there is a Nobel prize for dirt and filth, India will win it, no doubt.

It was good to launch the economy in the '50s. Japan did this; China did this; even South Korea did this. All the East Asians did this - import substitution. I think all countries followed import substitution in the '50s and in the '60s, but I think by the '70s, countries were getting out of that first phase of the strategy.

Don't get married in a house where there is no toilet.

There never is a good time for tough decisions. There will always be an election or something else. You have to pick courage and do it. Governance is about taking tough, even unpopular, decisions.