28 Quotes by Kiran Karnik

The intent is there, but implementation is lacking,

The fee can even be a few times higher. The institutes should work out a system of giving loans to those who need them.

India has very good teachers, especially in math and science. Also, these subjects are culture-free so it is comparatively easy for Indian teachers to teach them. Online tutoring is an area which shows enormous potential for growth.

Indian companies are not satisfied playing the second fiddle anymore. They are competing big with the global IT companies.

In middle class India, the appetite for risk is low. But it is changing.

In the short term, most of the Indian technology companies may look at innovation as a strategy to achieve higher growth.

But in the long term, innovation will be a strategy to survive in a highly competitive world. If the companies don't innovate to open up new business opportunities, they will sink.

I don't think there is going to be any significant outcome from a big summit as WSIS. But I really hope that there would be some consensus on Internet governance,

The developed economies are going to face acute shortages of working-age people - they will have either import people or export work. The further you project the time horizon, the more inevitable it gets.