I was born in Tamil Nadu. I built HCL in UP. The first computers of the world were built in UP, and the UP government has supported us all through.

In philanthropy, you have to take the attitude of a mother... You have to be patient, and we have been very patient for a long time.

You have to be very skilled in this industry. I grew in this industry we created the very beginnings of this industry. We made the first PCs (personal computers) in the world.

Any institutions' alumni are key to its growth. We are focused on giving a global experience to our students.

My student days in PSG saw three Prime Ministers, two wars, taught us courage, resilience, leadership and optimism.

On Sundays, we would travel to the town and watch English movies. This way, we must have ended up watching some 1, 000 movies during college.

Since Graham Bell came up with telephony, it took 100 years for the way the technology has impacted our lives, the way we perceive the world.

Education is and will be the most powerful tool for individual and social change, and we must do all that it takes to facilitate it.

You cannot weave the truth from a string of lies

I was used to being the smartest guy in the room, and then God dropped me in a place that was well beyond me. It was painfully awesome.

Love manifests its reality in deeds, not only in words - these alone are without effect.

The various elements of truth stand in perpetual antithesis, sometimes requiring us to believe apparent opposites while we wait for the moment when we shall know as we are known.

The thicker the hay; the easier mowed.

I want to think and at the same time that's the last thing in the world I want to do.

Literary characters, like my grandmother's apparitions, are fragile beings, easily frightened; they must be treated with care so they will feel comfortable in my pages

Poetry has its own laws speaking for the life of the planet. It is a language that wants to bring back together what the other words have torn apart.

I can state that I created a ballet company of which everyone said: St. Petersburg has the greatest ballet in all Europe.

Faith cannot be inherited or gained by being baptized into a Church. Faith is a matter between the individual and God.