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A founder who is in for the short run, or has no passion for the sector he is in, doesn’t give me a great deal of comfort.

Flying, I continue to be involved with it. I love flying, and I hope to keep doing it so long as I can pass my medicals and stay proficient.

If a founder has passion and innovation, he needs to be supported. I am more intuitive than a numbers person, and I recognize that not all investments are going to be positive. Some may fail, and some may have problems for other reasons. That is life.

I have always been very confident and very upbeat about the future potential of India. I think it is a great country with great potential.

Ups and downs are very important to keep us going because a straight line even in an E. C. G. means we are not alive.

There are many things that, if I have to relive maybe I will do it another way. But I would not like to look back and think what I have not been able to.

If we dispense with some of our self-made boundaries, India can really take its place in the world as an economic power. It hasn’t happened because we, sadly, don’t look at ourselves as Indians but as Punjabis or Parsis, unlike the Americans. Don’t make such boundaries.

I came seriously close to getting married four times, and each time I backed off in fear or for one reason or another. Each occasion was different, but in hindsight when I look at the people involved, it wasn’t a bad thing what I did. I think it may have been more complex had the marriage taken place.

If there are challenges thrown across, then some interesting, innovative solutions are found. Without challenges, the tendency is to go on the same way.

People still believe what they read is necessarily the truth.