Quotes from Sanjaya Baru

The G-20,with all its inadequacies, is a mixed group of the world's rising and risen powers.

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.

There is no denying the fact that China has been able to convert its economic might into commercial and technological capability.

The challenge of leadership in a plural democracy is to construct policies that ensure political stability, social equity, and economic progress on the basis of a widely shared ethical and cultural foundation.

I have not broken any promises, but I have full freedom to say or write about what others have said to me during my tenure in the PMO.

China and Germany are important geo-economic powers that have been able to bolster their geo-political and even military power, thanks to the opportunity provided by their geo-economic rise.

Many people in public life are not good campaigners.

In some ways, Mr. Modi's foreign policy is a continuation of Dr. Manmohan Singh's, and in some ways, it could be that Mr. Modi was repossessing all the non Nehru-Gandhi leaders of the Congress.

David Cameron is no Margaret Thatcher.

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.

The reason a Congress-led coalition didn't happen in 1990 was because it is entirely possible that Rajiv Gandhi himself wasn't sure how the Congress party would evolve in that context.

Rajiv Gandhi could have certainly attempted to form a Congress-led coalition government in 1990.

If the Asian financial crisis had the impact of accelerating China's rise, the transatlantic financial crisis has had the effect of accelerating Germany's rise.

In the 1990s and the first decade of the 21st century, regionalism was seen as a building block of globalisation.

Indian politics has a way of taking a curious turn and surprising the wisest of pundits.

Few disagree with the view that the 21st century will witness the return of Asia to the centrestage of global economic activity.

For China, the GCC countries have emerged as a major market for Chinese manufactured goods and food exports.

If development is defined in social and economic terms while Hindutva is defined in cultural terms, it should be possible for the BJP to construct a political platform that is reassuring to a large majority of Indians and is respectful to the letter and spirit of the Constitution.

The role of the media in economic management is not often recognised even by professional economists. Politicians, however, ignore this at their own peril.

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 the World Bank does not alter its shareholding structure to reflect the shifts in global distribution of income and economic power, its role may get marginalised as regional institutions fill the vacuum.

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.

While the World Bank is an inter-governmental institution, drawing its funds from member governments and run by a board of directors nominated by member governments, its policies have increasingly become sensitive to civil society pressure and NGO agendas.

An important instrument of economic policy-making in a market economy is credible, consistent, and timely communication.