 When we come to the opportunities, we've addressed strength, we've addressed weaknesses. What are the opportunities the nation has today in nation building with 1.2 billion people? See, India is a… this… this nation is a tremendous opportunity, a possibility. This is something that anybody who looks at this nation with closely enough can clearly see here. Rest of the world clearly sees that… that this is a nation of tremendous possibility. But what we need to understand is, between a possibility and a reality, there is a distance. Do you have the courage, the commitment and the conviction to walk the distance? That's always the question. Definitely it's a great possibility. We are sitting on the threshold, but do not underestimate our ability to goof things up. I am not being pessimistic, I am the last person to be pessimistic about anything. But I know our ability to goof things. I see it every day. The way they drive on the street, the way they do things, the way everything is made. We have a phenomenal ability to goof up things because we are too much genius with very little organization. Yes, everybody thinks he's a genius. If you go sit in a tea shop in a street side, rural India, no, no, no, I'm not talking politics. If you sit in a tea shop in somewhere rural India's street side, because I've driven across the country, I've sat in Dabas and tea shops so much, I've ridden a criss-crossed India on my motorcycle, so I've lived in Dabas and tea shops all the time. So you will see the guy who is making the tea there, he will be telling how Tendulkar should have made the right shot. How he… you know, how his technique is not good, he's doing a wrong approach. Or Bishan Bedi sitting here, how he could have bought it. Whatever, this kind of things. He will be talking about how the Prime Minister should have run the country differently. Only problem with him is he does not know how to make good tea. So this is a problem we are… we are too exuberant. Something like this is generally considered a high-context society with too much context, not enough content. It's a very beautiful way to exist on one level. But if we do not organized, if we do not focus this natural exuberance of the people, a certain intelligence which is free-wheeling intelligence, you will have a very chaotic situation which seems to be going somewhere but not going anywhere. It's like a whirlwind making its own rounds. So it needs a little forceful engagement of pushing it in a certain direction. A little authority to push it, people don't understand what powers India. It's far… powered by itself, it's just like a whirlwind. But you must be able to direct it in the direction that you want it to go. That needs a little bit of authority. But we picked up all kinds of fancy ideas, we don't like authority, you know. We don't like any kind of authority. We would like to go all over the place. Just see… Just… The driving on the street is a clear demo. I'm not talking about authoritarianism but a certain authority which organizes this whirlwind of chaos is needed for this country to push it in one direction, otherwise we will keep going round and round. We come… See we've been sitting on a threshold. For me, the economic development that everybody is talking about, I am not thinking about how you can transform your life from Maruthiti Mercedes, that doesn't matter to me. I'm not against cars, I like that but that is not the thing. There are over six hundred million people. Today night, after this is over, when we go wherever we go, the table at which we sit, there will be a choice of dinner that you and me can choose. There are six hundred million people who have no such choice tonight. The child who has to go to school tomorrow, he is not eating what is necessary for him to go and remember who is Mahatma Gandhi's wife. He doesn't care a damn because he is not eaten right. The woman who carries a child in a womb doesn't have the necessary nourishment to bring out something that's worthwhile. Now this can change in next five to eight years' time if we handle things right. And it matters that we handle this right. So you really combined the opportunity with the threat because the same population, the same energy, if goofed up as you said, could be a threat? Of course. Is there any other threat other than this? See, this is the biggest threat for India. This also happened in the economic forum. Our people, particularly the corporate and also the ministers were… You know, everywhere you hear this, I think everybody is repeating this chant. We are the youngest nation in the world. We are the youngest nation in the world. I sat through this and I was amazed why everybody is gloating about we are the youngest nation. So I asked them, what happened to the old people? They said, what? No, no, we are the youngest nation. I said, that's okay. But what happened to the old people? I want you to know in India, in India nobody gets old. But I am. That's why we are the youngest nation in the world. Yes, it is a tragedy that we don't have old people. But this tragedy can be turned into a tremendous possibility right now because compared to the rest of the world, we are a youthful nation. We have the opportunity to power ourselves into well-being. But we must understand why we are the youngest nation. Suppose we are saying right now, sixty percent of the population is below thirty and we are up very proud. Tomorrow you find sixty percent of the population is below fifteen, something wrong has happened or no? Yes. Why are we not looking at it? We have not run it properly. Why don't we see people are not growing old, people are not living, my great grandmother lived to be one, one, three. Nobody is living like that. Everybody is dying in their fifties and sixties or even less. So we are, we have this synergy of youth right now. So our poets are realising many things about the country. I want you to understand for one point two, five billion people, you neither have the land, nor mountains, nor forests, nor rivers, nor even a piece of sky for one point two, five billion people. If all of them have to live in decent housing, almost literally, you know, huge occupation will happen. There will be nothing left. Only reason why we seem to be managing is because they are living like cattle packed up in one room, twelve people are sleeping, we are managing. If every one of them has to have a decent bedroom, you won't have place. So only thing that you have is people. If you have this population educated, focused, balanced and inspired, we are a miracle. If you leave them uneducated, unfocused, uninspired, unskilled, we are the biggest disaster waiting. Do we need money for this? We have the money. We have the money. We have not had a determined leadership. What has been lacking is leadership because I am not somebody who takes any political stance but I am just looking back, I am seeing. Leave the first twenty-five years after independence. They did whatever best they could do with little that they had and it's a heady times, okay? But after the passing of Jawaharlal Nehru, we have not really had a prime minister in the sense. Somebody always except that Lal Bohudra Shastri for a short period and maybe Narasimha Rao for a little period which was government was torturing all the time. Rest of the time, somebody becomes a prime minister only because somebody dies and Indian emotion like a cinema it overtakes everybody and somebody's daughter, somebody's son, somebody's somebody becomes the prime minister. We've never really had someone who has roots in the nation, who knows what this country is and who is burning with aspiration to make this nation something. We've never had that. It's only by default that people have become prime ministers in this country. But don't the leaders come from within the community, within the people? No, no, I am saying prime ministers happen only because somebody died. We also have certain states. We talk about even state governance. We're not only talking about central governments. Yes, but India has 29 states today. It's state governance. Look, what's happening with Uttar Pradesh today? Uttar Pradesh, what is happening? It's a leadership which was elected two and a half years ago with overwhelming acceptance. What happened? It's come from within. But what's gone wrong? What is the present state? I'm not saying gone wrong or right. So aren't people responsible for it? No, we are a democracy in paper. But our mindset is essentially feudalistic because even… I'm saying even among the elite and educated, suppose you do well tomorrow. Suppose our present prime minister does really well tomorrow, people will cry, I wish we had a son. You understand? People will cry, we wish he had a son because when he goes his son could become the prime minister. I'm saying in our mindset we are still feudalistic. So when you are feudalistic, things are run in a certain way. What essentially it means is being feudalistic or democratic is. Feudalistic means who your father was matters. Democracy means you don't care a damn who your father was. I don't want to know. This is why I said Mahatma Gandhi's wife, I don't want to know who she is. I don't want to know who Mahatma Gandhi's father is. We bow down to him for who he is and that's all that matters to us. And that's how it should be in a democratic nation. We care who you are, we don't care who your father was. You may care who your father was, I don't care who your father was. I only care who you are.