In terms of being a professional, I want to be professional with everyone.

When I was a graduate student, I actually took a course in development economics and I thought it was the most boring thing in the world.

To insist that no one can support the interests of the aam aadmi without being one himself is like saying that no man can support women's rights.

So, I went to Harvard and I got exposed to American work habits. I didn't even realise for a while that I was behind. I kind of had the illusion that I was understanding things. But people worked so hard and the thing I learnt first in America was that people work incredibly hard.