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- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
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- Nov 07, 2020
For all the criticism I've been showered with - people calling me a betrayer, a backstabber - frankly, the only criticism I have of Manmohan Singh is that he weakened the office of the prime minister, and he brought down the dignity of the office.
- Memoirs
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- Nov 07, 2020
In India, too many people do not write memoirs, but Natwar Singh and P. C. Alexander did.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
Civil servants and government functionaries do not write memoirs because they hope to get more government jobs or assignments.
- Freedom
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Face
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- Nov 07, 2020
A politician normally flatters you in your face and criticises you behind your back.
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was in the PMO, Digvijaya Singh used to call me whenever he wanted to see the PM. He used to go through me. He is under compulsion to criticise me, but I am under no compulsion to criticise him.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think the government lost control over fiscal policy in UPA-2. But it is possible to suggest that the momentum of the populism of UPA-1 did the damage when the economy slowed down, but government spending could not.
- Foreign Policy
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Coalition
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- Nov 07, 2020
Rajiv Gandhi could have certainly attempted to form a Congress-led coalition government in 1990.
- How
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Her
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- Nov 07, 2020
Prime ministers with full majority have behaved differently from each other. Jawaharlal Nehru was a leader who ruled by consensus while Indira Gandhi was considered more unilateral in her approach.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I do believe it is true that the people of India regard the prime minister as the most important political leader.
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think many people grow on the job.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Many people in public life are not good campaigners.
- Country
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- Nov 07, 2020
India is a complex country.
- Language
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- Nov 07, 2020
Telangana is not like Jharkhand or Chhattisgarh, nor even like Haryana. Apart from the language it shares with the rest of Andhra Pradesh, it is today more integrated economically into the state as a whole.
- Coastal
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- Nov 07, 2020
Hyderabad is a truly pan-Telugu metropolis that has come to accept the mix of Telangana's dakhni culture and the coastal region's Andhra culture.
- City
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- Nov 07, 2020
Economically, the business development of the greater Hyderabad region has made the city integral to the state.
- Energy Security
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- Nov 07, 2020
As Asia's rising powers seek to sustain growth and ensure stability, energy security has moved to the forefront of Asian geopolitics.
- Growth
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- Nov 07, 2020
Given the stake that both the U.S. and Europe have in stabilising and sustaining global growth, their policies should be aimed at ensuring China, India, and other newly industrialising Asian economies can take up the slack created by the slowdown in OECD economies.
- Emerged
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- Nov 07, 2020
For China, the GCC countries have emerged as a major market for Chinese manufactured goods and food exports.
- India
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- Nov 07, 2020
A trilateral initiative by the U.S., China, and India in the Gulf, aimed at facilitating a resolution of historic problems in the region, would benefit global growth and stability.
- Better Way
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- Nov 07, 2020
If Iran seeks to meddle in domestic Indian politics by creating disaffection among the Shias of Uttar Pradesh, what better way to counter that by reminding all concerned that while the Shias maybe an important vote bank in U.P., they constitute only 10 per cent of Indian Muslims, while the Sunnis account for an overwhelming 90 per cent.
- India
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- Nov 07, 2020
The people of India and Arabia have interacted across the waters between them for thousands of years.
- Forward-Looking
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- Nov 07, 2020
While history has its limitations in shaping contemporaneous and forward-looking strategic choices, it does shape popular perceptions.
- Growth
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- Nov 07, 2020
The UPA's strategy of 'inclusive growth' remains the foundational pillar of economically, politically, and socially sustainable development.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
Policies that aim to promote the livelihood security of the people - promoting employment, improving the nutritional status of children and women, expanding educational opportunities, and providing affordable healthcare - would be the first charge on the budget of a developmental state.
- India
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- Nov 07, 2020
Policies aimed at attracting more foreign investment into India would naturally be a part of an external stabilisation strategy.
- Enterprise
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- Nov 07, 2020
Adversity is the mother of enterprise.
- Politics
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- Nov 07, 2020
Indian politics has a way of taking a curious turn and surprising the wisest of pundits.
- Financial Crisis
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Bolster
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Building Block
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the 1990s and the first decade of the 21st century, regionalism was seen as a building block of globalisation.
- Mixed
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- Nov 07, 2020
The G-20,with all its inadequacies, is a mixed group of the world's rising and risen powers.
- Drawing
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- China
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have been visiting China since 1995.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
The world may view India more benignly, but it does more business with China. It courts China; it needs China. Look at the genuflecting Europeans and the fork-tongued Americans!
- Europe
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- Nov 07, 2020
Few in Europe imagined the incompetence and dishonesty of Greek economic managers would bring the entire European project into question.
- Continental
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- Nov 07, 2020
Continent-wide nations require continent-wide leaders whenever they are in crisis. The 'idea of Europe,' much like the 'idea of India' was the construction of such continental leaders.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
When national policy becomes hostage to regional interests, the federal government becomes paralysed and would be unable to act in the larger national interest.
- Efficient
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- Nov 07, 2020
The ministries of finance and industries and commerce require modern-minded, transparent, and efficient leadership.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
The new era of bottom-up politics has had politically paradoxical consequences in China. While it has made the system of governance more participatory, it has made the central government less authoritarian and, therefore, more bureaucratic and cautious.
- David Cameron
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- Nov 07, 2020
David Cameron is no Margaret Thatcher.
- Partnerships
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- Nov 07, 2020
Bharat Nirman was a development programme aimed at stepping up public investment and public-private partnerships in the construction of rural roads, drinking water supply, rural telecommunication, rural housing, and minor irrigation.
- Left
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- Nov 07, 2020
Unlike other flagship programmes, which have been left with unpronounceable acronyms, like MGNREGA and JNNURM, Bharat Nirman struck a popular chord.
- Indian
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- Nov 07, 2020
Ups and downs are par for the course and very much a feature of the Indian growth process.
- Growth
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- Nov 07, 2020
Unlike China's growth story, which has been built on the strategy of creating excess supply, the Indian growth story has been built on the strategy of responding to incentives generated by excess demand. Which is why a certain degree of inflation is built into the Indian growth process.
- Colonialism
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- Nov 07, 2020
It would be wrong to see the re-making of Asia, much less India,as a revolt against the West. Asia has indeed been re-built on the ruins of colonialism, but not on the ruins of all that the West has come to represent.
- Habit
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- Nov 07, 2020
Like wildebeest and zebra migration across the Serengeti, investment managers and consultants, too, have a habit of running together and, every now and then, changing direction.
- Development
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- Nov 07, 2020
Africa is experiencing rising rates of growth, but will growth get translated into development?
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Diplomacy
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- Nov 07, 2020
As fiscal constraints impinge on defence and diplomacy, governments find themselves increasingly homebound, even if diplomats happily travel to summits.
- Blocks
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Both
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- Nov 07, 2020
India's difficulties in negotiating an FTA with both the ASEAN and E.U. are a reminder of the importance of multilateralism.
- Autonomy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Strategic autonomy is not secured by merely asserting one's independence: it is secured by creating mutually beneficial interdependencies.
- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Like war, economics is more an art than a science.
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- Nov 07, 2020