Rapid-fire with Jaishankar

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“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.

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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

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