While we are connecting rural India with digital highways, we are also working on contents using regional languages to make the technology more meaningful to people.

The real journey for India to realize its dream for becoming a destination of hi-tech manufacturing has begun.

India did not innovate with the ATMs. But when we brought ATMs into India and made the machines talk in 15 regional languages to the people in rural India, we got millions of transactions on the ATM.

India was the mother of our race and Sanskrit the mother of Europe's languages. She was the mother of our philosophy, mother through the Arabs, of much of our mathematics, mother through Buddha, of the ideals embodied in Christianity, mother through village communities of self-government and democracy. Mother India is in many ways the mother of us all.

There is a wealth of readership for regional language literature in India that is not given importance. We must give respect to our own languages.

Rural state highways are where about 50 percent of the states traffic fatalities occur.