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Like wildebeest and zebra migration across the Serengeti, investment managers and consultants, too, have a habit of running together and, every now and then, changing direction. Sanjaya Baru

Together Every Too Changing Running Direction Habit Consultants Investment Like Managers Then Migration Across Now Now And Then

Africa is experiencing rising rates of growth, but will growth get translated into development? Sanjaya Baru

Will Rates Rising Development Get Africa Experiencing Translated Growth

Unplanned urbanisation can create urban chaos and trigger urban violence. Sanjaya Baru

Chaos Trigger Urban Create Violence

While free trade purists have always rejected regional and plurilateral trading arrangements, the WTO's charter chose to be pragmatic and regarded RTAs and FTAs as building blocks of, rather than barriers to, the multilateral trading system. Sanjaya Baru

For too long have many of us in India imagined a future in which the country would rise, leaving the rest of the subcontinent behind. This is neither possible nor warranted. Sanjaya Baru

Future Rest Long Country Too Possible Neither Would India Rise Leaving Nor Behind Which Us Many Imagined

On climate change, Russia's interests are aligned with the West rather than the South. Sanjaya Baru

Change Aligned Russia Rather Climate Climate Change West South Than Interests

Ordinary people understand that the rich and powerful bully the poor and meek. Sanjaya Baru

People Rich Meek Powerful Understand Bully Ordinary Ordinary People Poor

To be sure, China is nowhere as powerful as the U.S., but it has acquired the ability to impose its will on individual nations around the world. From Australia to Germany, South Africa to South Korea, political leaders are careful not to rub China the wrong way. Sanjaya Baru

World Political Will South Africa Way Ability Individual Wrong Leaders Powerful Wrong Way Sure Around Korea Impose South Political Leaders Australia South Korea Germany Nations Africa China Acquired Nowhere Rub Careful

If U.S. mistakes in the Middle East helped Putin raise Russia's global profile, China's missteps and hubris in East and Southeast Asia, once called Indo-China, have opened up new spaces for India's profile to be raised. Sanjaya Baru

Mistakes Once East East Asia India Russia Putin Opened New Global Hubris Up Southeast Southeast Asia Middle Middle East Spaces China Asia Helped Profile Raise Raised

Public universities are the lifeblood of modern democracies. Sanjaya Baru

Democracy Lifeblood Modern Public Universities

China has, without doubt, become an economic superpower. Sanjaya Baru

Become Doubt Superpower Economic Without China

Indeed, China may never acquire the geo-political influence and reach that Great Britain enjoyed in the 19th century and the United States of America did in the 20th, even though it may have already surpassed the geo-economic clout the two major powers enjoyed in the heyday of their empires. Sanjaya Baru

Great Great Britain Heyday Indeed States Though Never Empires Major Reach Powers America Did May Influence Clout China Acquire Century Even United United States United States Of America Enjoyed Britain Two

All economically well-off nations have used what has been dubbed 'cheque-book diplomacy,' and China does so, too. Apart from funding government-to-government lending, China has also been able to create global companies and global brands that have contributed to Chinese soft power. Sanjaya Baru

There are any number of socially relevant causes that publicly minded individuals may feel strongly about. In a democracy, it is for the government of the day to legislate laws to deal with such issues. Not for courts to issue advisories and declare criminal what may often be normal economic activity protecting livelihoods. Sanjaya Baru

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If development is defined in social and economic terms while Hindutva is defined in cultural terms, it should be possible for the BJP to construct a political platform that is reassuring to a large majority of Indians and is respectful to the letter and spirit of the Constitution. Sanjaya Baru

Just as the policies and programmes for development have to adhere to the law of the land - respecting the basic principles underlying the Constitution - so, too, must the idea of Hindutva. Sanjaya Baru

Constitution Law Programmes Too Respecting Adhere Must Idea Development Policies Underlying Principles Just Land Basic Basic Principles

The challenge of leadership in a plural democracy is to construct policies that ensure political stability, social equity, and economic progress on the basis of a widely shared ethical and cultural foundation. Sanjaya Baru

Leadership Democracy Progress Political Challenge Ensure Construct Economic Shared Policies Equity Cultural Stability Social Ethical Foundation Widely Basis

When we can export American energy to markets around the world, the president will also be able to use it as an important tool to increase our global leadership and influence, advancing our global agenda and helping to keep our citizens safe. Sarah Huckabee Sanders

Leadership World Will Important Energy Increase President Tool Our Markets Citizens Able Advancing Global Safe Also Around Important Tool American Influence Agenda Use Export Helping Keep

For the people to hear directly from their president, no matter what format that is in - whether it's through social-media platforms, whether it's through speeches, whether it's through interviews - that's always a positive. Sarah Huckabee Sanders

Positive People Matter President Interviews Directly Through For The People Always Hear Format Whether Platforms Speeches

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