Dr. R. Balasubramaniam (Balu)
Member, NITI Aayog. On 1 show, 1 appearance. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.
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He founded the Swami Vivekananda Youth Movement and the public policy think tank Grassroots Research and Advocacy Movement. A former Rhodes Professor at Cornell University, he has authored multiple books including Power Within.
1shows
1appearances
18statements
10resolved
6supported
1contradicted
60%fully supported
Everything Dr. R. Balasubramaniam (Balu) said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.
Balasubramaniam: Farm law protests were driven primarily by North Indian trader cartels
“South Indians never really protested because they saw the benefit of it. Maybe for political reasons, they might have been if they would have here and their protest were there, but North India only a particular set of people where the trader communities contro…”
Balasubramaniam: The Kashmir conflict is nearly solved
“Kashmir problem has been nearly solved today. The election results, right?”
Balasubramaniam: India Discovered Algebra, Calculus, Trigonometry, and the Binary System
“A nation which discovered algebra, calculus, trigonometry, binary system, to metallurgy, to chemistry, cannot be a nation of fools, right?”
Balasubramaniam: Idolizing Historical Figures Is a Proxy for Not Following Their Principles
“When you can't live those messages, The best way to deal with your own inadequacy is to call them great, put them on a pedestal, make a statue, worship them, declare a Jayanti, and that's a proxy for not living their message.”
Dr. Balasubramaniam: RSS is the world's largest volunteer organization
“Everybody, and it's the largest volunteer-based organization in the world. They are, they don't, it's not even a registered organization. So it's, it, and it's so organized, but it's not structured into membership and membership fees, etc.”
Balasubramaniam: Post-370 Kashmir saw 68% voter turnout and expanded minority rights
“If you look at a lot of things, today, even politically, 68% voting is not easy. In that state, nobody expected that. The parliament elections happened. The panchayat elections happened. Decentralization of power has happened. Redrawing of deserving people who…”
Balasubramaniam: Modi drove African Union inclusion into G20
“Bali, we couldn't get a G-Twenty declaration because what's happening around the world, the same countries, right? And we expanded and got African Union inside. What a masterstroke it was. How can you let out a bulk of humanity from a narrative of economic gro…”
Dr. Balasubramaniam: Indic Seva differs from Western philanthropy through Advaitic oneness
“In India, we say Seva is always done with the spirit of recognizing you in the other. It's about an Advaitic expression where there's no distinction between you and me, and therefore, I am serving this same divine spirit in you. It's a prasad I offer to, my se…”
Balasubramaniam: Gujarat Administration Took 14-16 Hours to Realize Morbi Dam Broke
“The fact is, 14 to 16 hours it took for the civil, civil administration to realize, This had happened, but the RSS had swung into action, and the RSS, it's got boots on the ground throughout India, and Modi led the relief, and he was there”
Balasubramaniam: Modi Personally Carried Bodies and Handled Mass Cremations in Morbi
“So Modi and a set of volunteers, and literally the volunteers when I interviewed them, some of them whom I could validate this information with, told me that he personally would carry the dead bodies, you know, with his colleagues and sometimes on his shoulder…”
Dr. Balasubramaniam: India held 36-38% of global GDP historically
“My own research in the development space has been India's past, and if you look at it, our share of the global GDP, the only nation, Angus Madison, the great economic historian, he actually writes saying that the consistent growing nation in the world that he …”
Dr. Balasubramaniam: The State Operates on Information and Power Asymmetry
“See, the state, by definition, runs and operates on information asymmetry and power asymmetry. I have enormous information, but I don't give everything to the citizen. Therefore, I can control you. Whereas, that's what gives me power to the state executive app…”
Balasubramaniam: Indian Bureaucracy's Cultural Shift Will Take 10 to 15 Years
“Is there, but to become a cultural DNA of government, my guess is it'll take 10 to 15 years. You can't, it's not control. I'll delete and everything will change overnight, but the journey has begun. And I personally believe if the momentum continues like this,…”
Dr. Balasubramaniam: India Replaced Official Document Attestation with Citizen Self-Attestation
“Even simple things like, if you have to get your, ah, documents attested, you know, ah, 10 years ago, it was that, 10 or 11 years ago, you had to go to an officer of the government, and he will certify you are what you are, or who you are. Today, ah, ah, the c…”
Balasubramaniam: Indian Passport Renewals Are Dispatched Before Police Clearance
“Today, if you are already renewing your passport, you don't have to get a police clearance. This passport will be sent to you and then the police clearance will happen. Earlier, the citizens are stuck because without police clearance, the passport would not be…”
Balasubramaniam: India's core national civil service totals 3.2 million officers
“The crux is 100,000 group A officers and the hard working soldiering people are the B and C officers. All put together 3.2 million.”
Balasubramaniam: 100 to 120 Space Startups Emerged in India in Two Years
“Close to a hundred to a 120 startups in the last two years have emerged after opening up, and they're all now becoming suppliers to Israel.”
Dr. Balasubramaniam: Kautilya reduces governance to protecting and enabling citizen security
“A king's responsibility is only two things. Yogakshema and Lokasangraha. Welfare of society. And he says, every citizen keeps acquiring a lot of securities, economic, political, social, intellectual. The king's responsibility is to protect those securities he …”
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 NEON SHOWLEDGER | Member, NITI Aayog | 1 | 18 | 60% 6/10 | full record on the Neon Show → |