Is There a Strong Case to Be Made for Boring Personalities?

There is now quite a lot of emphasis in indian foreign policy circles about india being the vis guru, the teacher to the world. I think it's a little premature when we're not really a net exporter of knowledge, or even a great producer of knowledge to day. We may have been in history, but i think if you look in terms of scientific invention, innovation, in terms of other forms of knowledge, it is still primarily being produced in the industrialized countries to day. For me, i measure any of these in terms of, how far will it help us to transform india? How far will it improve the lives of ordinary indians? That has to be the