S. Jaishankar

In this Indian name, the name Subrahmanyam is a patronym, and the person should be referred to by his given name, Jaishankar.

Subrahmanyam Jaishankar (born 9 January 1955) is an Indian diplomat and politician serving as the Minister of External Affairs of the Government of India since 30 May 2019. He is a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party and a Member of Parliament in the Rajya Sabha since 5 July 2019. He previously served as the Foreign Secretary from January 2015 to January 2018.

Quotes

 * You used the dichotomy of democracy and autocracy. You want a truthful answer? It is hypocrisy. We have a set of self-appointed custodians of the world who find it very difficult to stomach that somebody in India is not looking for their approval, is not willing to play the game they want to play. So they invent their rules, their parameters, pass their judgments and make it look as if it is some kind of global exercise.
 * On Freedom House downgrading India from "Free" to "Partly Free", as quoted in


 * We are not debating just a documentary or a speech that somebody gave in a European city or a newspaper edits somewhere -- we are debating, actually politics, which is being conducted ostensibly as media -- there is a phrase 'war by other means' this is politics by another means -- I mean you will do a hatchet job, you want to do a hatchet job and say this is just another quest for truth which we decided after 20 years to put at this time.
 * On the BBC documentary India: The Modi Question, as quoted in


 * Look, they (China) are the bigger economy. What am I going to do? As a smaller economy, I am going to pick up a fight with the bigger economy? It is not a question of being reactionary, it’s a question of common sense.
 * On India's China policy, as quoted in


 * It is not the West which is flooding Asia and Africa with goods on a massive scale. I think we need to get over the syndrome of the past that the West is the bad guy and on the other side are the developing countries. The world is more complicated, the problems are much more complicated than that.
 * On, as quoted in


 * If I change the name of your house, does it become my house?
 * As quoted at Reuters and in "China’s “Names War” Attacks India’s Arunachal Pradesh" by Massimo Introvigne, Bitter Winter (April 9, 2024)
 * As quoted at Radio Free Asia: If today, I change the name of your house, will it become mine?