“I will send Lord Hanuman to Pakistan and Lord Krishna to China.” Here’s what S Jaishankar said when faced with a barrage of rapid-fire questions.
📹: Indian Express, Indian Express Entertainment.
📹: Indian Express, Indian Express Entertainment.
Category
🎥
Short filmTranscript
00:00The one lesson Chinese diplomats can learn from Indian diplomats
00:03Be nice to Indians
00:05You have the magical ability to request both Hanuman and Shri Krishna
00:09Who would you send to which country to fix our relationship with?
00:12Send Hanuman to Pakistan and Shri Krishna to Pakistan
00:17RRR, Uri, 370, Kerala files, Kashmir files
00:22Which film do you think helped bring Bharat's perspective out more?
00:25I did like RRR a lot
00:30India or Bharat, which name would you prefer your host country uses to introduce you on your next official visit?
00:37Bharat
00:41The one lesson American diplomats can learn from Indian diplomats
00:45Speak better English
00:54You can't give the same answer for the next question
00:56The one lesson Chinese diplomats can learn from Indian diplomats
01:01Be nice to Indians
01:05The one lesson Indian foreign policy can learn from American foreign policy
01:11You know I won't give you a flippant answer because actually I think still in many ways
01:17How to be a global power is something which is enormously complicated
01:24Does that entail allowing every professor to come in for every seminar in India?
01:30Well I think you know the answer
01:34I want you to imagine you are living in a utopian time
01:37Where all characters of Mahabharata and Ramayana are walking on the earth
01:41Now you have the magical ability to request both Hanuman and Shri Krishna
01:46One who I am quoting from the book performs his duties undaunted by any obstacles
01:51And the other a master strategist and source of wisdom at difficult moments
01:56Who would you send to which country to fix our relationship with?
02:06You know I would give them like a global contract
02:11I would say you know look you are capable of fixing everything
02:15Do it because each one has a different sort of strength
02:20Okay I am going to list some countries down and I will try to push you an answer
02:24Okay so let's first say between Pakistan and China who would you send to which country?
02:27I would probably send Hanuman to Pakistan and Shri Krishna to Pakistan
02:37Who would you send to Maldives? Who would you send to Sri Lanka? Who would you send to Nepal?
02:41You know I would give them a global contract but I wouldn't overtax them
02:46RRR, Uri, 370, Kerala Files, Kashmir Files
02:51Which film do you think helped bring Bharat's perspective out more?
02:55You know that's an unfair question to ask me only because I haven't seen some of them
03:00But I did like RRR a lot
03:02Yeah you mentioned RRR in the book so I thought you would
03:04Not just for the dancing
03:05Space, Semiconductors, Artificial Intelligence, Textiles, Manufacturing, Agriculture, Human Resources
03:10Which will be the biggest leverage for India?
03:13I would say in a 10 year time frame, Space and Semiconductors
03:18The one thing that's changed in Indian government's dealing with Pakistan over the past 10 years and one thing that stayed the same?
03:24I would say what has changed is the clarity about dealing, responding to terrorism
03:33One thing which has changed, remained the same is the reality of the fact that they are a neighbor
03:45The one lesson you would advise the Indian Prime Minister to learn from China's faltering economy?
03:51No, if I gave advice to the Prime Minister I am not going to give you that insight
04:02Thank you