If you write a lovely story about India, you're criticized for selling an exotic version of India. And if you write critically about India, you're seen as portraying it in a negative light - it also seems to be a popular way to present India, sort of mangoes and beggars.


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Just making regulations for IPR is not enough. Its enforcement and conviction are also important to ...
KIRAN KARNIK
The developed economies are going to face acute shortages of working-age people. They will have to e...
KIRAN KARNIK
The developed economies are going to face acute shortages of working-age people - they will have eit...
KIRAN KARNIK
I expect a bigger horde of students to arrive next year because the ones here said they had a great ...
KIRAN KARNIK
India has very good teachers, especially in math and science. Also, these subjects are culture-free ...
KIRAN KARNIK
The intent is there, but implementation is lacking,
KIRAN KARNIK
There is a charm to letters and cards that emails and smses can’t ever replicate, you cannot inhal...
KIRAN MANRAL
I believe in prayer. I believe in gratitude and serving people.
KIRAN BEDI
Life at any time can become difficult: life at any time can become easy. It all depends upon how one...
MORAJI R. DESAI
It is easy to hate and it is difficult to love. This is how the whole scheme of things works. All go...
MORAJI R. DESAI
Self-help must precede help from others. Even for making certain of help from heaven, one has to hel...
MORAJI R. DESAI
Then, as you get to more advanced stages, you often can't even have a conversation with the patient....
DR. ABHILASH DESAI
With a cancer patient, the person knows and is aware of a lot of the things going on. But in dementi...
DR. ABHILASH DESAI
My father was a brew master. He was the one who I was very close to, he influenced me in many many w...
KIRAN MAZUMDAR-SHAW
I do serve on various boards and I'm very honest and frank, obviously. I am a very forthright pe...
KIRAN MAZUMDAR-SHAW
My legacy is going to be in affordable health care. I am willing to invest in developing that model ...
KIRAN MAZUMDAR-SHAW
If you think about brewing, it is biotechnology. And I would say that I was a technologist at heart....
KIRAN MAZUMDAR-SHAW
It was a chance encounter with a biotech entrepreneur from Ireland that got me started as an entrepr...
KIRAN MAZUMDAR-SHAW
As you become more successful, the gender barrier disappears. The credibility challenges you have du...
KIRAN MAZUMDAR-SHAW
Unfortunately, our stock is somehow not well understood by the markets. The market compares us with ...
KIRAN MAZUMDAR-SHAW
You have to build a culture of philanthropy. In a country like India, we need to be sensitive and ca...
KIRAN MAZUMDAR-SHAW
Indian business women like Indra Nooyi, Chanda Kochhar, Naina Lal Kidwai, Shikha Sharma, Swati Piram...
KIRAN MAZUMDAR-SHAW
friends are like food, many types but only few we like and a whole lot more to explore
KIRAN KUMAR. R
I think, in terms of corporate philosophy, I've always believed that you've got to treat peo...
KIRAN MAZUMDAR-SHAW
Inside feelings are not get succeeded,until when it is exploded...
KIRAN KUMAR A
As a traditionally risk-averse nation, India has rarely been at the forefront of innovation. Indian ...
KIRAN MAZUMDAR-SHAW
Lies can be created and destroyed however truth can only be transformed from one form to the other w...
KIRAN KUMAR A
When I started Biocon in 1978, the obstacles I needed to navigate were manifold - ranging from infra...
KIRAN MAZUMDAR-SHAW
I want to be remembered as someone who put India on the scientific map of the world in terms of larg...
KIRAN MAZUMDAR-SHAW
Blossoming flowers are your smiles they are with me though i'm away from you miles
SHASHI KIRAN JILLEPALLY
A guy with no goal in teenage is like a boat with no compass in the mid ocean
SHASHI KIRAN JILLEPALLY
Love made me a poet, detachment made me a writer
NIHAL KIRAN DALWAI
Talent, facebook and twitter can take you anywhere.
NIHAL KIRAN DALWAI
“Three things tell about a girl: her eyes, her friends and her favorite quotes.”
NIHAL KIRAN DALWAI
Always judge someone by their heart and emotions, not by the words they say.
NIHAL KIRAN DALWAI
There is nothing like we will loose today because we lost yesterday and don't loose today to win tom...
SHASHI KIRAN JILLEPALLY
What really got me focused on cancer was when my best friend was diagnosed with breast cancer, and e...
KIRAN MAZUMDAR-SHAW
I faced a number of challenges whilst I built Biocon. Initially, I had credibility challenges where ...
KIRAN MAZUMDAR-SHAW
I am very concerned about the fact that India as a country does not have a national health system, a...
KIRAN MAZUMDAR-SHAW
One of my objectives when I started Biocon was to make sure that I create a company for women scient...
KIRAN MAZUMDAR-SHAW