“It certainly makes sense to expand the pulp industry in Indonesia, .. It's clear that it will be a very competitive exporter of pulp to the rest of the world, including China and India. So the interest by the Indonesian government is clearly to establish a really competitive plantation fiber base to support a globally attractive export industry.” WorldGovernmentInterestSupportClearIndustryIndiaCompetitionIncludingChinaMake SenseAttractiveIndonesiaFiberPulpPlantationsChina And India Author:David Walker
“Gujarat's e-governance projects have been recognized in the country and abroad. To give a few examples- Gujarat has the largest Wide Area Network in the Asia Pacific. It is the first State to provide broadband connectivity in all schools and villages. It makes maximum use of video-conferencing including trial of the prisoners. Gujarat's ICT based Grievance Redressal System called SWAGAT has got the United Nation's Public Service Award. In addition, it has received eleven national awards for our various e-services.” GivingFirstsHas BeensCountryStatesUseSchoolNationsUnitedExampleProjectsAreasIndiaIncludingVariousWideTrialsVideoVillageAwardsPrisonerAsiaUnited NationsGovernanceMaximumElevenPublic ServicePacificGrievanceBroadbandGujaratIct Author:Narendra Modi
“In india, it's hard not to have Gandhi as a hero. To give up everything - including power and money - and to live for his countrymen, that beats everything else. He's a role model of selflessness.” GivingHardRolesHeroGiving UpModelsBeatsIndiaIncludingRole ModelsSelflessnessCountrymen Author:Amit Bhatia
“Theres a clear and strong connection between fertility reduction and womens literacy and empowerment, including womens gainful employment. If you look at the more than 300 districts of India, the strongest influences in explaining fertility variations are womens literacy and gainful economic employment.” IfsLooksStrongClearInfluenceEconomicEmpowermentConnectionsIndiaIncludingEmploymentStrongestLiteracyExplainingVariationReductionFertilityStrong Connection Author:Amartya Sen
“India has, of course, aspirations of getting out of its poverty, ignorance, and disease which still afflict millions of people. But I do believe that we have something to offer to the rest of the world, including the United States.” PeopleWorldBelieveStillsStatesCoursesUnitedPovertyMillionsUnited StatesIgnoranceOffersDiseaseIndiaIncludingAspiration Author:Manmohan Singh
“India deliberately aggravated Sri Lanka's ethnic crisis. It destabilized Sri Lanka [by training and arming Tamil militants, including the Tigers] so that it could play a dominant role in bringing Sri Lanka within its sphere of influence.” PlayRolesInfluenceTrainingIndiaCrisisIncludingSpheresDominantTigersSri LankaAggravatedSphere Of Influence Author:Velupillai Prabhakaran
“There have been so many nations around the world that have had female leaders, including India.” WorldHas BeensNationsLeaderFemaleIndiaIncludingAround The WorldFemale Leaders Author:Priyanka Chopra
“Historically, several policy domains, including that of foreign policy towards the US and India, budget allocations etc, have been controlled by the Pakistani military, and the civil-military divide can be said to be the most fundamental fracture in Pakistan's body politic.” Has BeensSaidBodyMilitaryPolicyIndiaFundamentalsIncludingBudgetsEtcControlledDividesForeign PolicyPakistanDomainFractureAllocation Author:Noam Chomsky
“Everybody is in trouble, including the up-and-coming economic miracles of China, Brazil or India.” TroubleEconomicIndiaMiracleIncludingChinaBrazil Author:Zygmunt Bauman
“In India, 100 of the richest people own assets worth 25% of the gross domestic product. There's something terribly wrong. No individual and no corporation should be allowed to amass that kind of unlimited wealth, including bestselling writers like myself, who are showered with royalties.” PeopleShouldKindIndividualWealthProductsIndiaIncludingCorporationsAssetsUnlimitedGrossRoyaltyGross Domestic Product Author:Arundhati Roy
“I think in those countries, including my own in India, where I think primary education has been badly neglected by successive governments, I blame the opposition as much. Why have they allowed the government to get away with it?” ThinkingHas BeensCountryGovernmentMy OwnIndiaBlameIncludingPrimariesOppositionGet AwayNeglectedPrimary Education Author:Amartya Sen
“When the Nobel award came my way, it also gave me an opportunity to do something immediate and practical about my old obsessions, including literacy, basic health care and gender equity, aimed specifically at India and Bangladesh.” WayCareOpportunityIndiaIncludingGenderPracticalsObsessionMy WayHealth CareAwardsLiteracyEquityNobelBangladesh Author:Amartya Sen
“The number of people displaced by dams is estimated at between 40 million and 80 million, most of them in China and India. The costs of dams were on average 50% above their original estimate. Some designed to reduce flooding made it worse, and there were many unexpected environmental disadvantages, including the extinction of fish and bird species. Half the world's wetlands had been lost because of dams.” PeopleWorldMadeLostWaterNumbersHalfMillionsCostBirdIndiaOriginalsSpeciesEnvironmentalIncludingAverageFishesChinaMade ItUnexpectedExtinctionDisadvantagesBiodiversityDamsFloodingChina And IndiaWetlands Author:Paul Brown
“The innovation industries are rapidly going global. In five years, more than 50% of venture capital returns will come from markets outside the United States, including China, India, Brazil, and Australia, and AlwaysOn events are on top of these trends.” YearsStatesUnitedUnited StatesFiveEventsIndustryReturnIndiaInnovationIncludingChinaFive YearsAustraliaTrendsVentureBrazilVenture Capital Author:Jim Breyer
“It is time for the rest of the world to join ... in demanding that ALL the nuclear weapons states -including Israel, India and Pakistan, but above all the US and Russia - negotiate concrete steps on a definite time-table toward the global, inspected abolition of nuclear weapons.” WorldStatesStepsWeaponsIndiaTablesIncludingIsraelNuclearRussiaConcreteNuclear WeaponsDefinitePakistanDisarmamentAbolitionIndia And Pakistan Author:Daniel Ellsberg