India's Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar:

I use the word "emerging and middle powers" not because I like the word, but because that was the term given to me.

Maybe I should escape from that category and go higher than that.

After all, my self-perception of myself is: I am a 7,000-year-old civilizational power.

I would look around the world and say, okay, there are very few others who would qualify under that criterion.