The Internet can bring us much closer to the developed world.
Leadership is more than just managing economic reforms. Leadership means giving broad direction, take up challenges which other people cannot do.
Indians are very intelligent - of that, there is no doubt - but we are not necessarily hard working.
Our responsibility is to maximise shareholder value, and if that means we can make short-term investment where we can maximise short-term value, we can do that.
Our philosophy always teaches us that you can have intense activity, but inside, you have to have peace. The office has to reflect that.
In life, there are always intense battles, and yet we must practise the lessons from the Gita.
If you concentrate on action and forget the results, you actually perform much better, because then you are not worried what will happen.
Investment in Shriram will actually enable us to enter some of the retail segments such as vehicle financing, consumer and gold loans, and other products such as insurance, mutual funds, among others, where we wanted to have a footprint.
We never thought about getting into banking, as it is not an attractive business as perceived generally. This was also not a consideration when we decided to invest in Shriram Group.
Share your prosperity.
Don't hoard your wealth. Instead, live the life you want with the wealth you have been blessed with, but also make it beneficial for the good of the larger community.
It is very clear for us; we will do whatever is in the best interest of Shriram shareholders.
In pharma, we continuously look for acquisitions... if it makes strategic sense and if there is any value.
Within the renewables space, we are focused on solar and wind energy.