21 Quotes by Jairam Ramesh

India needs to be liberated both from the 'high GDP growth hedgehogs' and the 'conservation at all costs hedgehogs.'

Don’t get married in a house where there is no toilet,

I think environmentalists do no service to their cause by taking fundamentalist stances. I am not defending corporate India's track record, but for many environmental problems, there are technological solutions.

If there is a Nobel prize for dirt and filth, India will win it, no doubt.

Agitation is all about poetry, governance is all about prose.

India has a responsibility to itself to fight Climate Change

The Indian diaspora is not a capital-accumulating diaspora. The Indian diaspora is doctors, lawyers, professors. Or newspaper sellers. They are basically trade- or profession-oriented, and so they're not major investors in their home country.

Governments can’t keep looking over the shoulder or at the constellation of stars. You have got to do what you have got to do.

India has a responsibility to itself to fight Climate Change.