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Monday, Jan 16, 2006

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`Economic development generating new issues'

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It requires a strategic disseminating ideas, says professor

TALKING ECONOMICS: Nandan Nilekani, President and CEO of Infosys, with Sunil Khilnani at the Second New India Lecture on `A bridging power? India in the world,' in Bangalore on Sunday. — Photo: K. Murali Kumar

Bangalore: Though it has been optimistic notion that economic growth leads to political development and can remove political disturbances, there are possibilities of it generating new issues. Economic development on its own does not generate a conducive environment, and hence it requires a strategic way of disseminating ideas, said Sunil Khilnani, Professor of Politics and Director, School Asia Studies at Johns Hopkins University.

Delivering a lecture on "A bridging power? India in the world" here on Sunday, he said that India should look at China in terms of its relationship in deepening economic interdependence with the U.S. He said that the place of India in the global scenario will depend on nurturing internal diversity and it is a must that India makes use of its democratic dividend.

"To be a democratic society is to be a historic society. Growth and development can also create issues and hence it is imperative that the democratic society is monitored. The brain diffusion should be not only by a single individual but it has to be by people across various sectors. A vastly imperfect democracy should be recognised and there is a need to learn from the imperfections," said Prof. Sunil.

Emphasising on the maintenance of autonomy of judgment, he said that there should be an understanding between everyone involved in any strategic game and there should work towards their area of interest.

On the emergence of democratic China, he said that there is a possibility that it could take more than 20 years as they have removed the resources that could be used. China has started using courts to eradicate corruption.

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