Women have talent and intelligence but, due to social constraints and prejudices, it is still a long distance away from the goal of gender equality. – Pratibha Patil
Often, we are quick to find blame with others but yet are unable to give constructive responses. There seems to be a tendency to doubt almost everything. Do we not have faith in our own peoples strengths and in our institutions? Can we afford distrust amongst ourselves? – Pratibha Patil
A paradigm shift, where, in addition to physical inputs for farming, a focused emphasis placed on knowledge inputs can be a promising way forward. This knowledge-based approach will bring immense returns, particularly in rain fed and dry land farming areas. – Pratibha Patil
India is known for its sobriety and wisdom, balanced and sensible thinking. We need strong institutions and we need good governance in the country. – Pratibha Patil
The way you want to respond is to ask a question: Is this technology directly relevant to our hedgehog concept? If the answer is YES, then we want to become pioneers, not in the technology, but in the application of that technology specifically linked to our hedgehog concept. – James Collins