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“While ideological blinkers blind one to change that one does not wish to see, statistics and opinion surveys, too, have their limitations in a complex polity like India.”
“Unplanned urbanisation can create urban chaos and trigger urban violence.”
“China has, without doubt, become an economic superpower.”
“Strategic autonomy is not secured by merely asserting one's independence: it is secured by creating mutually beneficial interdependencies.”
“On many key global economic issues, Russia's loyalty is divided between the West and the South. As an energy exporter, it stands opposite energy importing China and India. As a commodity trader resisting the influx of cheap Chinese manufactures, its interests in the WTO clash with those of many of the developing economies.”
“Every university has its problems. The issues range from lack of amenities, plagiarism, poor quality research, sexual harassment, faculty moonlighting, and faulty and biased recruitment.”
“In the 1990s and the first decade of the 21st century, regionalism was seen as a building block of globalisation.”
“The World Bank is a shareholder-driven organisation, and as in all such organisations, the majority of shareholders would want a manager of their liking at the top.”
“It is unfair to constantly allege that Manmohan Singh's only unfulfilled desire is to visit his birthplace in Pakistan and that his Pakistan policy is defined by this obsession.”
“Real power in the modern world is determined by a nation's economic capabilities, not just the nuclear warheads it stores.”
“A major concern of some of us who were not sympathetic to the separate Telangana movement was with respect to the future of Hyderabad.”
“With new oil and gas discoveries, Africa's energy exporters will have to invest in defence capability and work with other Indian Ocean powers to ensure security of sea lanes.”
“Indeed, China may never acquire the geo-political influence and reach that Great Britain enjoyed in the 19th century and the United States of America did in the 20th, even though it may have already surpassed the geo-economic clout the two major powers enjoyed in the heyday of their empires.”
“Few disagree with the view that the 21st century will witness the return of Asia to the centrestage of global economic activity.”
“While free trade purists have always rejected regional and plurilateral trading arrangements, the WTO's charter chose to be pragmatic and regarded RTAs and FTAs as building blocks of, rather than barriers to, the multilateral trading system.”
“Africa is experiencing rising rates of growth, but will growth get translated into development?”
“On the upswing of an economic cycle, workers, consumers, savers, investors, and entrepreneurs imagine a future that is brighter than the past. On the downswing, they imagine a future dimmer than the past.”
“If wars were won by superior technology alone, the United States would not have been vanquished in Vietnam or waylaid in Afghanistan.”
“A politician normally flatters you in your face and criticises you behind your back.”
“Indian politics has a way of taking a curious turn and surprising the wisest of pundits.”