I do believe it is true that the people of India regard the prime minister as the most important political leader.
Many people in public life are not good campaigners.
India is a complex country.
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.
For China, the GCC countries have emerged as a major market for Chinese manufactured goods and food exports.
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.
Any sustained rise in the price of oil will hit the Indian economy hard.
The people of India and Arabia have interacted across the waters between them for thousands of years.
The UPA's strategy of 'inclusive growth' remains the foundational pillar of economically, politically, and socially sustainable development.
A major concern of some of us who were not sympathetic to the separate Telangana movement was with respect to the future of Hyderabad.
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.
I have been visiting China since 1995.
The ministries of finance and industries and commerce require modern-minded, transparent, and efficient leadership.
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 is no Margaret Thatcher.
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.
Unlike other flagship programmes, which have been left with unpronounceable acronyms, like MGNREGA and JNNURM, Bharat Nirman struck a popular chord.
Ups and downs are par for the course and very much a feature of the Indian growth process.
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.
