The India Way Quotes

“The ethos of the Indian Ocean is a consultative one and in the long run, it is the people-centric initiatives and projects that are likely to be more sustainable.”
― S. Jaishankar, The India Way: Strategies for an Uncertain World

“A 2018 study estimated that the resources drained from India by the UK alone were as much as $ 45 trillion by current value.”
― S. Jaishankar, The India Way: Strategies for an Uncertain World

“South Asia is clearly among the least integrated regions of the world and being located at the centre of the Indian Ocean, its dysfunctionality affects that larger space directly.”
― S. Jaishankar, The India Way: Strategies for an Uncertain World

“This is a time for us to engage America, manage China, cultivate Europe, reassure Russia, bring Japan into play, draw neighbours in, extend the neighbourhood and expand traditional constituencies of support. The”
― S. Jaishankar, The India Way: Strategies for an Uncertain World

“The India Way, especially now, would be more of a shaper or decider rather than just be an abstainer”
― S. Jaishankar, The India Way: Strategies for an Uncertain World

“Mother India is in many ways the mother of us all’ – WILL DURANT”
― S. Jaishankar, The India Way: Strategies for an Uncertain World

“In the Trump vision of the world, allies have disappointed America and competitors have cheated it. India is fortunate in being neither.”
― S. Jaishankar, The India Way: Strategies for an Uncertain World

“Those constrained by their inabilities can only take comfort in the reputational advantages that they inadvertently enjoy.”
― S. Jaishankar, The India Way: Strategies for an Uncertain World

“be different.”
― S. Jaishankar, The India Way: Strategies for an Uncertain World

“China’s rise is especially instructive for India. It was driving diplomatically in the late 1970s efforts to forge a united front against the USSR. This is in contrast to its reluctance to intervene, even indirectly, in the 1971 Bangladesh conflict despite being exhorted to do so by the Nixon Administration. What changed during this period was a determination to break up the cooperative strand in the ties between the US and USSR that was constricting China’s strategic space. So it utilized both the Vietnam and Afghanistan conflicts to that end. And thus created a favourable political climate for the flow of Western investments. So much so, that even when the Tiananmen incident happened, there were enough advocates abroad to mitigate the damage. Having more than achieved its strategic objectives when the USSR broke up, China altered course and made up with a Russia coming under pressure. For an Indian assessing this period, it is telling that a competitor willing to take greater risks and pursue strategic clarity not only got a decade’s head start in economic growth but also a more favourable geopolitical balance. So much again for consistency.”
― S. Jaishankar, The India Way: Strategies for an Uncertain World

“China’s rise is especially instructive for India. It was driving diplomatically in the late 1970s efforts to forge a united front against the USSR. This is in contrast to its reluctance to intervene, even indirectly, in the 1971 Bangladesh conflict despite being exhorted to do so by the Nixon Administration. What changed during this period was a determination to break up the cooperative strand in the ties between the US and USSR that was constricting China’s strategic space. So it utilized both the Vietnam and Afghanistan conflicts to that end. And thus created a favourable political climate for the flow of Western investments. So much so, that even when the Tiananmen incident happened, there were enough advocates abroad to mitigate the damage. Having more than achieved its strategic objectives when the USSR broke up, China altered course and made up with a Russia coming under pressure.”
― S. Jaishankar, The India Way: Strategies for an Uncertain World

“In fact, the ability of India, Japan and the US to work together in a trilateral framework has been one of the novel elements of the changing Asian political landscape.”
― S. Jaishankar, The India Way: Strategies for an Uncertain World

“Asia is being shaped largely by the outlook of the US, the power of China, the weight of Russia, the collectivism of ASEAN, the volatility of the Middle East and the rise of India.”
― S. Jaishankar, The India Way: Strategies for an Uncertain World

“The key to a more settled Sino-Indian relationship is a greater acceptance by both countries of multipolarity and mutuality, building on a larger foundation of global rebalancing.”
― S. Jaishankar, The India Way: Strategies for an Uncertain World

“As electoral outcomes have affirmed across continents, the trend line today points towards stronger cultural identities and more nationalist narratives.”
― S. Jaishankar, The India Way: Strategies for an Uncertain World

“The heaviest penalty for declining to rule is to be ruled by someone inferior’ – PLATO”
― S. Jaishankar, The India Way: Strategies for an Uncertain World

“Being an ethical power is one aspect of the India Way.”
― S. Jaishankar, The India Way: Strategies for an Uncertain World

“Many friends, few foes, great goodwill, more influence. That must be achieved through the India Way.”
― S. Jaishankar, The India Way: Strategies for an Uncertain World

“India is today on a voyage of self-discovery and the lessons of Awadh are its surest compass in that quest.”
― S. Jaishankar, The India Way: Strategies for an Uncertain World

“India’s foreign policy carries three major burdens from its past. One is the 1947 Partition, which reduced the nation both demographically and politically. An unintended consequence was to give China more strategic space in Asia. Another is the delayed economic reforms that were undertaken a decade and a half after those of China. And far more ambivalently. The fifteen-year gap in capabilities continues to put India at a great disadvantage. The third is the prolonged exercise of the nuclear option.”
― S. Jaishankar, The India Way: Strategies for an Uncertain World

“Unlike other nations that rose earlier in Asia, China is much harder to fit into the Western-led global order.”
― S. Jaishankar, The India Way: Strategies for an Uncertain World

“Where maritime security and HADR situations are concerned, India has emerged as a key player, especially in the Indian Ocean.”
― S. Jaishankar, The India Way: Strategies for an Uncertain World

“By going the extra mile to provide medicines to more than 120 nations, two-thirds of them as grant, a clear message of internationalism was sent.”
― S. Jaishankar, The India Way: Strategies for an Uncertain World

“After all, Atmanirbhar Bharat does coexist with Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam (the world is a family).”
― S. Jaishankar, The India Way: Strategies for an Uncertain World

“the efficiency of others, instead of spurring competitiveness, has actually led to putting off further reforms.”
― S. Jaishankar, The India Way: Strategies for an Uncertain World

“China has advocated a new type of great power relations, a Belt and Road Initiative as well as a ‘community of shared future of humankind’.”
― S. Jaishankar, The India Way: Strategies for an Uncertain World

“India’s world view is consultative, democratic and equitable, but must find clearer expression.”
― S. Jaishankar, The India Way: Strategies for an Uncertain World

“If connectivity is not to acquire sharp strategic meaning, then there must be credible assurances that projects are not used to exert influence.”
― S. Jaishankar, The India Way: Strategies for an Uncertain World

“It was reassuring for these nations to see how staunchly India stood by them during the corona pandemic.”
― S. Jaishankar, The India Way: Strategies for an Uncertain World

“Today, there is a new geopolitical challenge – the emergence of multipolarity.”
― S. Jaishankar, The India Way: Strategies for an Uncertain World