We Americans sit at the head of the banquet table, as we have done for a century. Our standard of living is luxurious by any measure.

Although we take it for granted, sanitation is a physical measure that has probably done more to increase human life span than any kind of drug or surgery.

We're living in a time when the world has suddenly discovered India because it's run out of raw material for its imagination. The raw materials for imagination are inexhaustible here.

All of us are living with dogmas that we accept as truths. When one of these is overturned, there's an initial gasp, soon followed by a rush of exhilaration.

Our thinking and our behaviour are always in anticipation of a response. It is therefore fear-based.

I've always felt that technology can be used to our benefit and should be used to our benefit.