Pune, Dec. 20 -- Emphasising India's own traditions and highlighting instances of strategy and statecraft in its scriptures, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Saturday said that Lord Krishna and Lord Hanuman were "greatest diplomats" also and noted that one is the great diplomat of story of Mahabharata, the other is great diplomat of the Ramayana.

Speaking at the Pune Book Festival, Jaishankar also said that the world today is an era of coalition politics.

"No one has a majority. No coalition has a majority. So what happens is that constantly combinations are formed, deals are struck, somebody is up, somebody is down, some issue comes up. Multipolar world is like having many parties...Sometimes you are with one, for some other i...