India must get the world to condemn what the US is doing with patents' 'If Trade Related Intellectual Property Rights is to be a binding treaty, then the Convention on Biological Biodiversity must be an equally binding treaty. We have resoundingly lost the basmati case' RiceTec has got every single commercial advantage it needs to market the rice. WTO cannot be blamed for our inaction' 'We have been sleeping over the inevitable challenges that we knew would arise out of signing the WTO pact. But there's no point in looking back. These are not crown jewels, these are bleeding ulcers' 'We must tell the people about the public sector's condition.
People are confused because nobody is doing it.
Everything in India has become dysfunctional' 'A fractured legislature and bad administration make swift decisions impossible. We don't want privatisation' 'We don't want contract system. We don't want divestment. I think there will not be many takers for Enron's stake in DPC' 'If somebody else buys it, he still has to sell the power. Ketan Parekh is a soft-spoken man.