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I am a self-taught water skier and wind surfer.

In business, you try to minimise risk.

I am sick and tired of the process where everybody tells you that Indian companies don't have the technology and capability. We need to put money where our mouth is and make things happen, and that is what we are trying to do.

From Baba Kalyani

Prior to 2001, hardly any company in North America or Europe would buy from India.

From Baba Kalyani

India is the most competitive manufacturing destination on this planet. If we are able to take advantage of that competitiveness for our domestic markets, this country would be humming with activity; industrial production will grow at 10-11% per year.

From Baba Kalyani

Everywhere in the world, whether manufacturing, trade or whatever, it is controlled by one apparatus and one policy perspective. Here we have one prime minister with good intentions, and six ministries running their own empires. This creates problems including the import culture.

From Baba Kalyani

We need to just study what other countries have done. There are examples of a strong partnership between the defence establishment and the private industry.

From Baba Kalyani

We passionately set up a programme that we call the Indian gun programme. I challenged Colonel Bhatia, who heads our defence business, that let's build an Indian gun. There's a belief that Indian companies aren't capable of this, and we want to prove them wrong, as we did in components.

From Baba Kalyani

There is a feeling within our system that defence equipment can't be made here and should be imported. I wanted to break this myth, so we spent our money and made a product to prove we have capability in this country, so don't just brush us aside.

From Baba Kalyani

India is the second biggest defence procurer in the world after the U.S.

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