Interesting reading

• "The most profound changes in modern Indian society have come not of good intentions, but through market forces, like the steep fall in the price of mobile handsets and call rates. It is in this way that greed is good."

• "It is well known that most Muslim businessmen are concentrated in small, medium and micro enterprises. While their share in the overall population is 9%, their share in SMEs is proportionately far larger at about 22%. Today Muslims in Gujarat don’t face any hassles or discrimination in getting government clearances when they want to set up enterprises in Gujarat. Otherwise Muslims could not have prospered as they have. Modi has a simple formula. All are equal before law. Take your rights as citizens. Don’t ask for this or that because you are Hindu or Muslim, or on the basis of caste or community."

• "My earlier experience of covering various riots as well as conflict situations in Kashmir and Punjab had taught me that media reports cannot be trusted enough to take a definitive stand on such issues since they are often coloured by the ideological prism used by the writer.  Therefore, I refrained from making statements on Gujarat."

• "But if these do not exist 65 years after India won freedom, then it is almost entirely because of an educational licence-quota-permit raj. In keeping with the socialist mindset of free India's early decades, we instituted a system that gave officials enormous powers to interfere in education in a manner that benefited only them. Inspectors can make a lot of money out of their interventions and very rarely is their meddling designed to improve standards of learning."