Sanjaya Baru | India & China: Of power, performance & posturing
11 months, 2 weeks ago

Sanjaya Baru | India & China: Of power, performance & posturing

Deccan Chronicle  

A note written by Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, the country’s first home minister, in 1949 on the view India ought to take of China is once again in the news. By not allowing the border issue, with China occupying newly acquired territory along the so-called “Line of Actual Control” to further mar the relationship, Prime Minister Modi has yielded space and conceded ground. Says Mr Zhang: “When discussing the trade imbalance between China and India, Indian representatives earlier used to primarily focus on China’s measures to reduce the trade imbalance. But now they are placing more emphasis on India’s export potential.” In short, what Mr Zhang is saying is that rather than complain about China’s unfair trade practices and the “unlevel” trade playing field, as India did for close to two decades, including through Prime Minister Modi’s first term, it had now come around to accept the size differential between the two and it now views the trade deficit as a consequence of India’s “limited” export potential and weak performance.

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Sanjaya Baru | Driving our foreign trade beyond the Trump bump
2 weeks, 1 day ago

Sanjaya Baru | Driving our foreign trade beyond the Trump bump

Deccan Chronicle  

The impending return to the White House of US President-elect Donald Trump promising high tariffs has raised the alarm around the world and not just in China. While saying nice things about India and Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Mr Trump has indicated that his trade negotiators would again take a close look at India’s tariffs. The return of President Trump …

Sanjaya Baru | NDA triumph in Maha will stabilise Modi’s leadership
4 weeks, 1 day ago

Sanjaya Baru | NDA triumph in Maha will stabilise Modi’s leadership

Deccan Chronicle  

If New Delhi is India’s national capital, Mumbai is the financial capital. The BJP’s loss of its parliamentary majority in the Lok Sabha elections, requiring it to revive the National Democratic Alliance, securing the support of the Telugu Desam Party and Nitish Kumar’s Janata Dal, had clearly impacted Prime Minister Modi’s standing and, perhaps, his own self-confidence. If, after all …

Internal Debate on China Investment: A Crucial Discussion for National Security
1 month, 3 weeks ago

Internal Debate on China Investment: A Crucial Discussion for National Security

Deccan Chronicle  

The article explores the differences of opinion within the Indian government on the issue of Chinese investment. It argues that the government should be open about the differences within the government and that this transparency is important for accountability and good governance. The article also raises the question of what constitutes national security and how the government should balance the …

Sanjaya Baru | Looking East or West Asia… Which way is India headed?
4 months, 2 weeks ago

Sanjaya Baru | Looking East or West Asia… Which way is India headed?

Deccan Chronicle  

The headlines coming out of South Asia are not particularly reassuring. There is a “rising Asia” to India’s East and an unstable Asia to India’s West. In recognition of the change under way, the then Prime Minister of Singapore Lee Kuan Yew famously said in 2007 that Asia was rising like a jet plane powered by two engines, China and …

Sanjaya Baru | The power and legitimacy of nations and leaders
11 months, 4 weeks ago

Sanjaya Baru | The power and legitimacy of nations and leaders

Deccan Chronicle  

Henry Kissinger’s passing away last month, a few months after he turned 100, has been mourned around the world by those who celebrated his eventful life. In his classic text on World Order: Reflections on the Character of Nations and the Course of History, Kissinger underscores the importance of both power and legitimacy in defining both a global and a …

Sanjaya Baru | How we view ourselves and how the world views India
1 year, 3 months ago

Sanjaya Baru | How we view ourselves and how the world views India

Deccan Chronicle  

By the end of this week the world’s attention will be focused on India. Given all the hype and hoopla, it is not surprising that a whopping 68 per cent of Indians surveyed by the American opinion polling agency Pew Research Centre said that India was “getting stronger”. The advice is from the Mahabharata -- “Aswathama Hatha Kunjara!” So, yes, …

Sanjaya Baru | As China bridges Gulf divide, can India draw right lessons?
1 year, 9 months ago

Sanjaya Baru | As China bridges Gulf divide, can India draw right lessons?

Deccan Chronicle  

In a world of geopolitical and geo-economic shifts, the People’s Republic of China turned yet another page in recent history by bringing together two Asian adversaries -- the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the Islamic Republic of Iran. In my paper on “India and the Gulf”, I used the official Indian term West Asia to refer to what the West …

Sanjaya Baru | Secession of the successful: Their passage out of India
1 year, 9 months ago

Sanjaya Baru | Secession of the successful: Their passage out of India

Deccan Chronicle  

Every time an alumnus of my school in Hyderabad gets a prize job overseas, everyone goes gaga. European colonialism forced many Indians out of India, creating a global community of “people of Indian origin”. I recorded in my recent book, India’s Power Elite: Class, Caste and a Cultural Revolution, the growing phenomenon of the “secession of the successful”. While the …

Sanjaya Baru | India-US ties: It’s like riding a roller coaster
1 year, 11 months ago

Sanjaya Baru | India-US ties: It’s like riding a roller coaster

Deccan Chronicle  

Foreign correspondents have always been a window to the world. A new addition to the short list of books by Indian journalists posted overseas is Seema Sirohi’s recently published worm’s eye view of the ups and downs of US-India relations over a 30-year period. Third, the role played by Prime Ministers Atal Behari Vajpayee and Manmohan Singh, on the Indian …

Sanjaya Baru | Queen and the republic, and our feudal loyalties
2 years, 3 months ago

Sanjaya Baru | Queen and the republic, and our feudal loyalties

Deccan Chronicle  

The death of Queen Elizabeth II earlier this month has evoked worldwide admiration for the manner in which the United Kingdom’s longest reigning monarch conducted herself over a difficult century. Prime Minister Narendra Modi may have renamed Rajpath as “Kartavyapath”, but most Indians are still in awe of feudal vestiges, including the Raj. Apart from our attitude towards the Queen …

Sanjaya Baru | India and China: Keeping an unstable equilibrium
2 years, 3 months ago

Sanjaya Baru | India and China: Keeping an unstable equilibrium

Deccan Chronicle  

Many of us were taught at school the wisdom of Robert Frost’s famous proposition: “Good fences make good neighbours”. In his recent book, How China Sees India, former foreign secretary Shyam Saran pithily observes: “India is a retreating image in China’s rear-view mirror.” For an India viewed as falling behind, catching up in terms of CNP is a necessary prerequisite …

Sanjaya Baru | India the global home of cross-cultural managers
3 years ago

Sanjaya Baru | India the global home of cross-cultural managers

Deccan Chronicle  

Every time that a person of Indian origin becomes the head of a global corporation there is much celebratory reporting in the media in this country and much hand-wringing about the costs and benefits of talent migration. India is going global, Indians will have to learn to deal with non-Indians in different business and managerial circumstances, he said, and added …

Sanjaya Baru | Regionals' national role: Mapping a path to 2024
3 years, 1 month ago

Sanjaya Baru | Regionals' national role: Mapping a path to 2024

Deccan Chronicle  

Next week the seventeenth Lok Sabha crosses the halfway mark of its five-year term. Surprisingly, though, the non-BJP parties have been slow in demanding greater accountability for the PM’s mishandling of the China challenge, even though Rahul Gandhi did not miss the opportunity to tweet that “our national security is unpardonably compromised because GOI has no strategy and ‘Mr 56’ …

Sanjaya Baru | India's multi-alignment' and the Jaishankar Way
3 years, 3 months ago

Sanjaya Baru | India's multi-alignment' and the Jaishankar Way

Deccan Chronicle  

If America’s President Joe Biden arrives at the first summit meeting of the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue at the White House later this week, having created a new trilateral security grouping with two members of the Commonwealth, Australia and Britain, Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be attending the in-person summit after having virtually participated in a Brics as well as an …

Sanjaya Baru | India-China: Bhai-bhai to buy-buy to bye-bye
3 years, 5 months ago

Sanjaya Baru | India-China: Bhai-bhai to buy-buy to bye-bye

Deccan Chronicle  

This is a historic month for China. China’s spectacular rise over the past quarter century, as a global trading superpower, the “factory of the world”, and as Asia’s most powerful nation, ready to challenge America’s global dominance, is the stuff of legend. In his recently published pithy narration of the events at Beijing’s Tiananmen Square in the summer of 1989, …

Sanjaya Baru | India's Great Helmsman: Salute to Narasimha Rao
3 years, 6 months ago

Sanjaya Baru | India's Great Helmsman: Salute to Narasimha Rao

Deccan Chronicle  

It was interesting that the day after Congressman Jitin Prasada joined the BJP, the political future of Rajasthan’s Sachin Pilot has become the subject of renewed media speculation. Narasimha Rao lent his prime ministerial imprimatur to the sweeping industrial and trade policy reforms that set India on a new growth path. A second set of policy initiatives that many will …

Sanjaya Baru | Flux in Centre-state ties with breakdown of trust
3 years, 6 months ago

Sanjaya Baru | Flux in Centre-state ties with breakdown of trust

Deccan Chronicle  

An outstanding address to the Goods and Services Tax Council by Tamil Nadu’s finance minister P.T. Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s recent direct interaction with district magistrates, ignoring their chief ministers, was also a reminder of Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi’s attempt to empower the district level bodies, funding them directly from New Delhi, bypassing state governments. Every time that Prime Minister …

Sanjaya Baru on the rise of India’s New Power Elite | The Hindu Books Podcast
3 years, 8 months ago

Sanjaya Baru on the rise of India’s New Power Elite | The Hindu Books Podcast

The Hindu  

In today’s episode we are in conversation with author Sanjaya Baru about his new book India’s Power Elite: Class, Caste and a Cultural Revolution. The ascent of Prime Minister Narendra Modi in the national arena has disrupted politics as we knew it and the BJPs’ subsequent dominance over political discourse has led sociologists and political commentators to find new idioms …

Nistula Hebbar reviews India’s Power Elite: Class, Caste and a Cultural Revolution, by Sanjaya Baru
3 years, 8 months ago

Nistula Hebbar reviews India’s Power Elite: Class, Caste and a Cultural Revolution, by Sanjaya Baru

The Hindu  

The ascent of Prime Minister Narendra Modi in the national arena has disrupted politics as we knew it. In India’s Power Elite, Sanjaya Baru tries to capture not just the churn brought about by the 2014 general election and the decline of the Congress in the political sphere, but its impact on the social and cultural landscape, and the nuts …

Sanjaya Baru | Quad Quandary: Of social intimacy, political conflict
3 years, 8 months ago

Sanjaya Baru | Quad Quandary: Of social intimacy, political conflict

Deccan Chronicle  

Even at the height of the Cold War and the anti-Communist McCarthyism of the 1950s in the United States, when Americans were warned to look for “Reds under the bed”, Hollywood never dreamt up a story in which a high-level Soviet woman spy makes it to the US defence secretary’s bedroom. So an Australian television series, Secret City, that shows …

Sanjaya Baru | India and US: It's still the economy, stupid
3 years, 9 months ago

Sanjaya Baru | India and US: It's still the economy, stupid

Deccan Chronicle  

Many observers and analysts have already commented on the fact that the first high-level visitor to India from the Biden administration in the United States happens to be US defence secretary Lloyd Austin. Keeping the defence and security relationship in focus serves both the Biden administration and the Narendra Modi government well at a time when the world’s two biggest …

Sanjaya Baru's new book to dissect power struggles in Indian politics, culture and economy
3 years, 9 months ago

Sanjaya Baru's new book to dissect power struggles in Indian politics, culture and economy

Firstpost  

New Delhi: Sanjaya Baru, former advisor to Manmohan Singh, will take readers from the corridors of Parliament to Delhi’s hidden durbars as he tells the “untold story” of Indian society in his new book. Baru, who currently teaches at the Indian School of Public Policy, has followed up his account of power politics in The Accidental Prime Minister with a …

Sanjaya Baru | Diaspora & democracy: Global Indians go local
3 years, 10 months ago

Sanjaya Baru | Diaspora & democracy: Global Indians go local

Deccan Chronicle  

Many among overseas Indians have for long been interested in and concerned about developments back home in Mother India. In 2014 hundreds of overseas Indians took time off from their work abroad to visit India and get involved in Narendra Modi’s election campaign. It is, therefore, ironic to see the same Modi government now lecture many among the overseas Indian …

Sanjaya Baru | Trump to Biden: Modi’s US ties in need of reset
3 years, 10 months ago

Sanjaya Baru | Trump to Biden: Modi’s US ties in need of reset

Deccan Chronicle  

Ending his much-acclaimed address to a joint session of both Houses of the American Congress in July 2005, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said, to rapturous applause: “Partnerships can be of two kinds. Mr Trump’s “America First” policies created new uncertainties for India’s “interests”, in areas such as trade and immigration policy, while Prime Minister Modi’s “Atma Nirbhar Bharat” trade and …

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