2. Do you plan to return to India to settle down?
No. Not really.

3. What do you like most about being abroad?
(1) Quality of life
(2) Human values

4. What do like least about being abroad?
1) Food
2) Culture

5. Would you be concerned about raising your family outside India?
No.

6. What are your thoughts about marrying outside your immediate community, someone who speaks a different language or practices a different religion?
I can't see any problem as long as understanding exists.

7. What would be the first thing you would do if you became the Prime Minister of India?
1. Try to abolish corruption.
2. Provide free basic education.

8. What do you think are India's greatest strengths?(max 3)
1. Heritage
2. Human resource
3. Family Structure

9. What do you think are the biggest problems facing India? (max 3)
1. Education
2. Population

10. Do you think that a presidential form of government would better serve the needs of India's democracy?
No, the present system is working fine.

11. For whom do you have the highest regard amongst living Indians?
My parents.

12. Do you think that the national obsession with Cricket has helped or has it hurt India as a sporting nation?
It has hurt India as a sporting nation but helped in cleaning up the dirt of Indian cricket.

13. What do you think are India's greatest achievements since Independence? (max 3)?
1) Infrastructure development
2) Defence Capability

14. What is your favourite pastime?
Watching TV.

15. What is your happiest memory?
Birth of my son, Saket.

16. What's your most memorable journey?
Train journey from Jalandhar to Mumbai with my wife.

17. What is your ultimate food dish?
Chicken Biryani.

18. What are your favourite movies? (max 3)
1) Avtar
2) Sharabi

19. What are your favourite books (please list authors as well)? (max 3)
1) God of small things (Arundhati Roy)

20. A message from you to other NRIs
Reach up to the sky but keep your feet on the ground.

- Sunil Bedi, Dublin, Ireland

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