…mildly secular, imperfectly democratic, and with a messy economic focus that is neither capitalistic nor socialistic. It is from the messiness of Indian ideas that the world could stumble into a new world order after a few decades because the world is done with ‘isms’. There is no capitalism worth hanging on to , and communism is anyway discredited. The world is searching for a new type of pragmatism that is driven by reality. Which is where India comes in.
— R Jagannathan (DNA, Bangalore 18-03-2010)