Sanjeev Sanyal
Member, Economic Advisory Council to the PM. On 1 show, 4 appearances. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.
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He advises the Indian government on economic policy and previously served as Principal Economic Adviser to the Ministry of Finance. He is also an author known for books on Indian history and geography, including Land of the Seven Rivers and Revolutionaries.
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66statements
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12said about them ↓ Everything Sanjeev Sanyal said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.
Post-decline Kolkata has failed to produce figures like Tagore or Bose
“It is also the case that Kolkata has never produced again, somebody of the caliber of Satyajit Ray, or Ravidnath Tagore, or Swami Vivekanand, or Netaji Subhash Bose, or Sri Aurobindo, or Acharya Jagadish Chandra Bose, or any number of other names I can give yo…”
Western agencies funded India's first ultrasound imports to curb population growth
“They basically, these whole bunch of these Rockefeller, Ford, even some UN agencies were involved in this, and they basically imported with their funding ultrasound machines. And they basically said that, look, this is great. Why don't you allow parents to act…”
Sanyal: EU-style risk-tier regulation for AI is guaranteed to fail
“So this idea of trying to put you know, levels of risk badges on AI is, in my view, a waste of time at hundred percent going to fail.”
Sanyal: Anti-business state policies caused Kolkata's economic decline from Asian powerhouse
“A large part of it was domestic policies of the state. There was a demonization of entrepreneurship, business, and risk taking. And not surprisingly through the seventies, eighties and nineties business systematically left Kolkata so much so that it is not a s…”
Sanyal: Too many young Indians waste energy attempting the UPSC exam
“My views on UPSC and the fact that I think that too many young people are spending too much of energy trying to crack that one tiny exam you know, you can agree, you can disagree, but I think it's a good thing that there is a national debate on something that …”
Building highways and the Ayodhya temple share a unified civilizational agenda
“In the end, I'm trying to rebuild a civilization. I'm not building just an economy. The economy is a part of it, but the overall purpose is rebuilding the civilization. So building a highway and rebuilding the Ayodhya temple are a part of the same agenda, and …”
Poverty of aspiration kept West Bengal's Left Front in political power
“Some part of it was of course, electoral malpractice booth capturing was converted into a art form, but I would argue that even more important than that was a poverty of aspiration.”
Sanyal argues current US politics reflects a poverty of national aspiration
“Then at some point in time, their aspiration shrank to which gender they wanted to have. And so I can assure you that the politics you are now seeing in in America is a direct reflection of the poverty of their aspirations.”
The intellectual NGO ecosystem relies on a business model glorifying poverty
“If you, if your you know, great economists are basically glorifying poverty, then don't complain that you get poverty, but because in each one of these things, an economy arises out of it, you know, so you will get an, you know an entire povertarian system wil…”
Western billionaire foundations fund sensationalized health studies to influence Indian policy
“One of these billionaire foundations will go and fund these studies. Then those studies will show either nutrition, vitamin D deficiency, whatever, whatever it is, the latest thing that you want to sell to India. And then it will be, then next stage will be, i…”
NGOs criticizing Indian billionaires are hypocritically funded by Western billionaires
“After all, all the NGOs that scream so much about this billionaire problem, all of them are actually funded by Western billionaires. Ah, Soros's Open Society, ah, Omidyar, Ford, Rockefeller, who are all billionaires? The problem is not with Gora billionaires. …”
Lakhs of Indian youth are wasting their peak years on UPSC exams
“But I think lakhs of people spending their best years trying to crack an exam where a tiny number of few thousand people actually going to get in makes no sense. The same, if they put the same energy into doing something else, you know, we would be winning mor…”
Sanyal: Regulatory bodies ban corporate branding, preventing an Indian KPMG
“Our professional bodies explicitly ban branding. So I cannot create a KPMG.”
Sanyal: Removing guild restrictions will ignite a wave of Indian consultancies
“You see, there are so many Indians in this space moment. We open it up large numbers of Indians, both based in India and many based abroad. We'll start.”
Sanyal: AI safety requires structural firewalls akin to financial industry regulations
“In financial systems we create, no, between subsidiaries, between group companies, we create all kinds of walls. We don't allow industries to own banks, for example. So we have to allow these kinds of walls. We have to create between different kinds of AI so t…”
Sanyal: India's fertility rate has fallen to 1.9, well below replacement
“Our required fertility rate is 2.4. And we are already at 1.9 and falling.”
Sanyal: No country has ever recovered from sub-replacement fertility rates
“No country in the world has once their fertility rate has fallen below replacement has been able to push it back up.”
Sanyal: Indian industry bodies lobby to protect incumbents, not for reform
“Let me say that the bulk of the reforms that I have done have been basically not because the industry bodies of that sector were pushing for those reforms, and that shouldn't be surprising because in most cases the industry body actually is reflects the incumb…”
Sanyal: Punjab's GDP share and relative income have steadily declined since 1970s
“It does well in agriculture it's per capita income by 1907 early seventies is well above the national average, and then it stagnates. And this happens to such an extent that today Punjab's per capita income is just barely above the national average and its sha…”
Sanyal: Odisha's per capita income is now higher than West Bengal's
“Odisha on the other hand, which was always the poor cousin, is now actually has a per capita income higher than a West Bengal.”
Sanyal: Reviving Eastern India's economy fundamentally requires reviving Kolkata
“Kolkata should have been that growth zone. Anchor of the East. So bringing back Kolkata is not just about, ah, reviving West Bengal. It is an anchor of the East, because when it gets going, it, it's just overwhelmingly bigger than Bhuvaneshwar or Ranchi or Goh…”
Sanyal: Wealthier Indian states must transfer low-tier industries to poorer states
“There will be a time when certain Indian states will be too expensive to do certain kinds of activities. We should not get emotional about it. Hand those over to another state. There are poorer states in, in queue. Give it to them. You move up the value chain.”
Bihar's poor political leadership directly reflects the societal aspirations of voters
“I think one of the problems of say a place like Bihar is not that it had bad leaders, that bad leaders are a reflection of what that society aspires for.”
Indian academia wins arguments by quoting authority figures rather than logic
“One of the things that will strike you, true of Indian academia to this day, that When you go through a certain argument, the argument is not ultimately won by virtue of the logic from first principles or from the evidence you bring. Ultimately, the argument i…”
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