'You should worry less about N-energy than about walking on the streets or driving in Delhi''

Tuesday , 22 March '11

With Japan facing a nuclear crisis at its Fukushima Daiichi plant, Srikumar Banerjee, Chairman of India''s Atomic Energy Commission, tells The Indian Express Editor-in-Chief Shekhar Gupta on NDTV''s Walk the Talk that India''s reactors are safe and that "even a very high tsunami can''t strike Jaitapur"

'To see ISRO tarnished, just because of the word 'spectrum'', makes me feel terrible''

Tuesday , 8 March '11

Kiran Karnik, former NASSCOM president, resigned from the Devas board over the ISRO S-band issue. In this Walk the Talk withThe Indian Express Editor-in-Chief Shekhar Gupta, Karnik speaks of his stint in ISRO and on how the government could have handled the controversy better.

'What I object to is the presumption that government officials have got all the knowledge and locals have none''

Tuesday , 15 February '11

The first woman to win the Nobel for Economics (2009), Dr Elinor Ostrom talks to The Indian Express Editor-in-ChiefShekhar Guptaon NDTV''s Walk the Talk on economics, governance and the idea of 'commons''.

'Obama has no option but to make India leading partner''

Thursday , 3 February '11

Ahead of Barack Obama''s India visit, Dr K Subrahmanyam spoke to The Indian Express Editor-in-Chief Shekhar Gupta on NDTV''s Walk the Talk. Excerpts from the interview, published on October 26, 2010.

'A lot of reforms in India happen subtly, without big confrontations. I feel frustrated because big reforms aren''t being done''

Tuesday , 1 February '11

In this Walk the Talk on NDTV with The Indian Express Editor-in-Chief Shekhar Gupta at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Raghuram Rajan, honorary economic adviser to the Prime Minister and Eric J Gleacher Distinguished Service Professor of Finance at the University of Chicago''s Booth School of Business, talks about big reforms, subsidies and giving cash to the poor.

'The model of development in India is well rooted because it comes up from the bottom''

Tuesday , 25 January '11

Vince Cable talks about India''s changing economic climate and UK''s experiment with coalition politics.

I have told him (Bopanna) last year that he was the most popular Indian in Pakistan, more than any Bollywood star: Qureshi

Sunday , 23 January '11

In this Walk the Talk on NDTV 24x7 with The Indian Express Editor-in-Chief Shekhar Gupta, the doubles pair of Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi and Rohan Bopanna explain how their partnership has transcended tennis and become a political statement

'If the PM can appear before the PAC, why can''t he appear before a JPC? It''s beyond comprehension''

Tuesday , 11 January '11

In this Walk the Talk on NDTV 24x7 with The Indian Express Editor-in-Chief Shekhar Gupta, Leader of the Opposition in Lok Sabha Sushma Swaraj speaks on the 2G scam, the Opposition''s demand for a Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) probe and her equation with Sonia Gandhi.

'I am not under pressure from my party but they say your continuance in PAC is confusing the issueit''s as if you are opposing a JPC''

Tuesday , 4 January '11

With the Opposition sticking to its demand for a JPC on the 2G scam, senior BJP leader and chairman of the PAC, Murli Manohar Joshi, speaks to The Indian Express Editor-in-Chief Shekhar Gupta on NDTV''s Walk the Talk on the mandate of the PAC, the PM''s offer to appear before the body and his party''s stand.

'The corporate sector is nervous...but I''m confident the PM will intervene''

Tuesday , 21 December '10

In this Walk the Talk on NDTV 24x7, Agriculture Minister and NCP chief Sharad Pawar tells The Indian Express Editor-in-Chief Shekhar Gupta that recent events have created a crisis of confidence among corporates and that the government will intervene to improve the situation

'The government must reconnect with corporate India. There is disillusionment among the old corporate houses''

Tuesday , 14 December '10

HDFC chairman Deepak Parekh is among the leading figures of corporate India. In this Walk the Talk on NDTV 24x7 with The Indian Express Editor-in-Chief Shekhar Gupta, Parekh says the current negativity is affecting India''s growth story and that the government should get its act together

'Never once in our association with Radia have we tried to subvert policies''

Tuesday , 30 November '10

In the concluding part of Walk the Talk on NDTV 24x7 with The Indian Express editor-in-chief Shekhar Gupta, Tata Group Chairman Ratan Tata talks of the Group''s plans for the future, and his own

'The most noise usually comes from the people who have the most to hide''

Sunday , 28 November '10

In this Walk the Talk on NDTV 24x7 with The Indian Express Editor-in-Chief Shekhar Gupta, Tata Group Chairman Ratan Tata breaks his silence on the 2G spectrum scandal and the Niira Radia tapes.

'Demand for a JPC into 2G is not right. There was a JPC on Bofors, what happened?'

Wednesday , 24 November '10

Speaking to The Indian Express Editor-in-Chief Shekhar Gupta, Arun Shourie takes an anti-JPC stand.

'The US made Headley, an undertrial, available to us. Which intelligence agency will do that?''

Tuesday , 2 November '10

In his long diplomatic career, Ronen Sen, former Indian ambassador to the US, has been witness to several significant landmarks in India''s foreign policy journey. In this Walk the Talk on NDTV 24x7 with The Indian Express Editor-in-Chief Shekhar Gupta, Sen speaks about the defining shift in Indo-US ties and says his "headless chicken" remark was misdirected.

'My uncle is a very practical man and knows difficult decisions could lead to electoral losses''

Tuesday , 19 October '10

Manpreet Singh Badal, till recently Punjab''s finance minister, was suspended from his party, the Shiromani Akali Dal, for his line on fiscal prudence in debt-ridden Punjab. In this Walk the Talk on NDTV 24x7 with The Indian Express Editor-in-Chief Shekhar Gupta, Badal speaks of why he stuck to his stand and how he is different from his cousin and party chief Sukhbir Badal.

'We are here not to frighten anyone; we are here to protect Delhi for the Games''

Tuesday , 12 October '10

The first mahila battalion of the Nagaland Armed Police is in Delhi to secure the city for the Commonwealth Games. In this Walk the Talk on NDTV 24x7, its eight members, representing six Naga tribes, speak to The Indian Express Editor-in-Chief Shekhar Gupta about their experiences here

'What''s happened in Kashmir opens a window of opportunity... take stock of reasonable concerns''

Tuesday , 5 October '10

As President of South Africa, F W de Klerk worked with Nelson Mandela to dismantle the apartheid system in the countrythe two jointly received the 1993 Nobel Prize for Peace. In this Walk the Talk on NDTV 24x7 with with The Indian Express Editor-in-Chief Shekhar Gupta, de Klerk talks about the transition years and the road ahead for South Africa

'Sixty has become very cool''

Sunday , 26 September '10

The minute you start obsessing over age it''s all over for you, says Shobhaa De. In Walk the Talk on NDTV 24x7 with the Indian Express Editor-in-Chief Shekhar Gupta, De, who has come out with her new book Shobhaa at sixty, talks about stardust days, socialite evenings and an ageist society that would rather shelve its 60-plus.