Sanjaya Baru

Like war, economics is more an art than a science.

— Sanjaya Baru

I have been visiting China since 1995.

— Sanjaya Baru

I think many people grow on the job.

— Sanjaya Baru

Many people in public life are not good campaigners.

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India is a complex country.

— Sanjaya Baru

Adversity is the mother of enterprise.

— Sanjaya Baru

David Cameron is no Margaret Thatcher.

— Sanjaya Baru

Wen Jiabao and Hu Jintao put together are no Deng Xiaoping.

— Sanjaya Baru

Any sustained rise in the price of oil will hit the Indian economy hard.

— Sanjaya Baru

“Victor Hugo: ‘No power on Earth can stop an idea whose time has come.”

— Sanjaya Baru

It is inconceivable that the rise of Asia could happen without the rise of the Indian subcontinent.

— Sanjaya Baru

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

— Sanjaya Baru

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

— Sanjaya Baru

“I am aware of the risks, but for India’s sake, I am willing to take those risks.”

— Sanjaya Baru

A politician normally flatters you in your face and criticises you behind your back.

— Sanjaya Baru

As fiscal constraints impinge on defence and diplomacy, governments find themselves increasingly homebound, even if diplomats happily travel to summits.

— Sanjaya Baru

The World Bank is a shareholder-driven organisation, and as in all such organisations, the majority of shareholders would want a manager of…

— Sanjaya Baru

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

— Sanjaya Baru

“He was the first prime minister in a long time who did not have a son or a son-in-law in business or…

— Sanjaya Baru

Unlike other flagship programmes, which have been left with unpronounceable acronyms, like MGNREGA and JNNURM, Bharat Nirman struck a popular chord.

— Sanjaya Baru

I do believe it is true that the people of India regard the prime minister as the most important political leader.

— Sanjaya Baru

“The Manmohan Singh government has won for India the keys to unshackle its nuclear programme from the unfair restrictions it has been…

— Sanjaya Baru

Battles, on the military and the economic front, are first lost in the minds of the strategists for want of ideas before…

— Sanjaya Baru

The liberal fiscal spending of the 2004-08 period was made possible both by rising government revenues and national income growth and by…

— Sanjaya Baru

There are any number of socially relevant causes that publicly minded individuals may feel strongly about. In a democracy, it is for…

— Sanjaya Baru

Bharat Nirman was a development programme aimed at stepping up public investment and public-private partnerships in the construction of rural roads, drinking…

— Sanjaya Baru

Indeed, China may never acquire the geo-political influence and reach that Great Britain enjoyed in the 19th century and the United States…

— Sanjaya Baru

The new era of bottom-up politics has had politically paradoxical consequences in China. While it has made the system of governance more…

— Sanjaya Baru

Family business management is a discipline that has evolved from an art into a science. The market for this line of education…

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“One of his favourite couplets, by the poet Muzaffar Razmi, which he quoted on more than one occasion, in Parliament and to…

— Sanjaya Baru

I think the government lost control over fiscal policy in UPA-2. But it is possible to suggest that the momentum of the…

— Sanjaya Baru

“Dr Singh’s general attitude towards corruption in public life, which he adopted through his career in government, seemed to me to be…

— Sanjaya Baru

“Expectations shape outcomes in a world of uncertainty. Expectations about the economy end up being self-fulfilling prophecies. If you expect tomorrow to…

— Sanjaya Baru

“When I would suggest a minister’s name for a better portfolio or an elevation in rank he would, every now and then,…

— Sanjaya Baru

“Political analysts and reporters who skimmed the surface only saw Dr Singh as ‘Sonia’s puppet’. Those who had a deeper knowledge of…

— Sanjaya Baru

“Ostensibly, the most important governance reform was supposed to be the Right to Information (RTI) Act that aimed to impose greater accountability…

— Sanjaya Baru

“It must be considered that there is nothing more difficult to carry out, nor more doubtful of success, nor more dangerous to…

— Sanjaya Baru

“But his opinion that Sonia should enter politics was also based on his conviction that without a Nehru-Gandhi family member at the…

— Sanjaya Baru

“We reject nothing useful for its plainness, we take nothing irrelevant for its dazzle.”

— Sanjaya Baru

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

— Sanjaya Baru