“We must recognise that in a globalised world, we cannot remain insulated from external developments. India's trade performance in the current year has been robust, surpassing pre-crisis export levels and pre-crisis export growth trends. We have diversified our export baskets and our export destinations.” WorldYearsHas BeensGrowthLevelsDevelopmentPerformancesIndiaCrisisTradeCurrentsDestinationTrendsRecogniseBasketsRobustSurpassing Author:Pranab Mukherjee
“With support jobs moving to China and India, it's not surprising that English-speaking countries' top frustration revolves around the difficulty of understanding customer service representatives. However, even if the level of customer service is exceptional, the extent to which poorly-understood accents trump quality of service speaks to English-speaking customers' growing intolerance of non-native speech, more so than in other countries.” IfsCountryJobsMovingSpeakUnderstandingLevelsQualitySupportGrowingTrumpSpeechUnderstoodIndiaDifficultyChinaCustomersNativeFrustrationSurprisingIntoleranceRepresentativesOther CountriesAccentsExceptionalEnglish SpeakingChina And India Author:Bob Hayes
“Whatever education a university or institutes of higher education imparts, it must achieve the global level of benchmarking given the vastness and diversity of global village we live in today.” TodayGivenLevelsEducationAchieveHigherDiversityIndiaUniversityVillageInstituteImpartHigher EducationVastnessInstitutesGlobal Village Author:Narendra Modi
“There are two roadblocks in the way of transforming India into an economic giant and one of them was education. I believe that if education is privatised at primary and secondary level, lot of our problems will be answered to” IfsWayBelieveTwoProblemI BelieveLevelsEducationEconomicIndiaPrimariesGiantsTransformingRoadblockTwo Roads Author:Kumar Mangalam Birla
“A nation with a strong defence industry will not only be more secure. It will also reap rich economic benefits - it can boost investment, expand manufacturing, support enterprise, raise the technology level and increase economic growth in the country.” CountryStrongNationsGrowthLevelsTechnologySupportRichEconomicIndustryBenefitsIndiaIncreaseRaisesInvestmentSecureEnterpriseGovernanceEconomic GrowthDefenceManufacturingReapBoost Author:Narendra Modi
“We have now reached a level where we should be even more ambitious. We should focus on more tangible mechanisms and outcomes. Make BRICS a platform of Impact.” ShouldLevelsFocusIndiaImpactOutcomesMechanismAmbitiousPlatformsGovernanceTangibleBrics Author:Narendra Modi
“What I like about Tibetan Buddhism is it was taken to Tibet in the 7th century and then again in the 11th. It has everything that had been collected in India up until that time. And so on all levels, it's so vast.” LevelsTakenCenturyBuddhismIndiaTibetanTibetTibetan Buddhism Author:Tenzin Palmo
“I think that the world that was behind us has gone ahead. We need to run a lot to match that level. So we do not need to calculate. We just need to give it all in. And I have given myself in completely. I've been successful is pulling my entire government in. I believe that India is also committed to moving forward.” ThinkingWorldNeedsGivingBelieveGovernmentRunningMovingGivenI BelieveLevelsBehindsGoneSuccessfulIndiaCommittedMoving ForwardPulling Author:Narendra Modi
“Contrasting sharply, in the developing countries represented by India, Pakistan, and most of the countries in Asia and Africa, seventy to eighty percent of the population is engaged in agriculture, mostly at the subsistence level.” CountryLevelsPercentIndiaPopulationDevelopingEngagedAgricultureAsiaPakistanSeventiesEightyDeveloping CountriesSubsistenceIndia Pakistan Author:Norman Borlaug
“You will find that hardly a soul who will say that it was a bad thing. Almost everybody will say it was a good thing. 'But what about today? Do you think we should have free immigration?' 'Oh, no,' they'll say, 'We couldn't possibly have free immigration today. Why, that would flood us with immigrants from India, and God knows where. We'd be driven down to a bare subsistence level.'” ThinkingKnowsShouldSoulTodayLevelsShould HaveIndiaGood ThingsDrivenImmigrationImmigrantsBad ThingsFloodGod KnowsSubsistence Author:Milton Friedman
“In Tharoor's hands [the story of modern India] is transformed into Mahabharata magic.... Endlessly inventive, irreverent, wise, ingenious,... it takes on at one level or another the entire panorama of modern India....Energetic and eventful.” StoriesHandsLevelsWiseMagicModernIndiaTransformedEnergeticIngeniousIrreverentMahabharataPanoramaModern India Author:M. G. Vassanji