Our aim should be to make India a global R&D hub.

Our aim may be as high as the endless sky, but we should have a resolve in our minds to walk ahead, hand-in-hand, for victory will be ours.

Let no one challenge India's secularism.

If India is not secular, then India is not India at all.

I believe India and Israel should focus on building bilateral relations on the basis of shared perspectives and commonalities between our two democracies. This has to be a forward-looking exercise rather than harking back to perceptions of the past.

I have a vision of India: an India free of hunger and fear, an India free of illiteracy and want.