I Quotes
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“India was a late comer to industrialization, and as such, we have contributed very little to the accumulation of greenhouse gas emissions that cause global warming. But we are determined to be part of the solution to the problem.”
“India was and to some extent, still is, a nation where its citizens care more about their religious freedom than any other earthly possession. Give them food or not, it doesn’t matter to them, as long as they are allowed to practice their religion. But, take away their religion, they will fight till the last breath of their life.”
Source: Neurons, Oxygen & Nanak
“India was China's teacher in religion and imaginative literature, and the world's teacher in trignometry, quandratic equations, grammar, phonetics, Arabian Nights, animal fables, chess, as well as in philosophy, and that she inspired Boccaccio, Goethe, Herder, Schopenhauer, Emerson, and probably also old Aesop.”
“India was not a pacifist country at all. India placed great emphasis on the higher value on... on violence. But it was never a substitute for not doing anything, or for cowardice.”
“India was the first country to ban The Satanic Verses- which was proscribed without following India's own stipulated due process in such matters, banned before it entered the country by a weak Congress government led by Rajiv Gandhi, in a desperate, unsuccessful bid for Muslim votes.”
Source: Step Across This Line: Collected Nonfiction 1992-2002
“India was the motherland of our race and Samskrit the mother of Europe 's languages...Mother India is in many ways the mother of us all.”
“India was the motherland of our race, and Sanskrit the mother of Europe's languages: she was the mother of our philosophy; mother of self-government and democracy.
Mother India is in many ways the mother of us all.”
“India was the motherland of our race, and Sanskrit the mother of Europe's languages: she was the mother of our philosophy; mother, through the Arabs, of much of our mathematics; mother, through the Buddha, of the ideals embodied in Christianity; mother, through the village community, of self-government and democracy. Mother India is in many ways the mother of us all.”
“India went through a dramatic revolution after the '90s when our economy started opening up for the first time and Indians were now experiencing the Western life, if you will. Drugs and sex and a lot of those influences came in as the economy stabilized, and we were growing up and experiencing that. The Indian writing market was very small at that time. Our literature was very attuned to what Western audiences were interested in, so everybody was writing about the slums in India and magic realism or stories about Hindus and Muslims and partition.”
“India will be successful when UP, Bihar, West Bengal, Assam and other parts of North East India are strengthened. India cannot develop till the eastern part of the country develops.”
“India will be tomorrow what China is today.”
“India will become 3 trillion dollar economy in 5 years”
“India will have to hang down her head in shame if even one person is left who is said in any way to be untouchable.”
“India will never, within any time that we can foresee, be an efficient country, organised and governed on Western lines. In her development to self-government we have got to be prepared to accept a degree of inefficiency comparable to that in China, Iraq or Egypt . . . [W] e cannot continue to resist reform because it will make the administration less efficient.’ - Wavell to Churchill, July 1944”
Source: Keeping the Jewel in the Crown: The British Betrayal of India
“India will not be a helpless partner in her own exploitation and foreign domination.”
Source: Collected Works
“India will resist a hierarchical order in Asia and a world dominated by China.”
Source: How China Sees India and the World
“India will reveal to you the places in your heart that must be purified.”
“India will teach us the tolerance and gentleness of mature mind, understanding spirit and a unifying, pacifying love for all human beings.”
“India without secularism is India of the dead.”
Source: Vande Vasudhaivam: 100 Sonnets for Our Planetary Pueblo
“India's a very interesting place... there's no formal opposition, but there's genuine on-the-ground opposition.”
“India's coming into her own will mean every nation doing likewise.”
Source: The Essential Gandhi: An Anthology of His Writings on His Life, Work, and Ideas
“India's democracy where over 1 billion people have a voice in deciding their future is a world example of how governance can incorporate diversity into a movement for inclusive growth. New modes of democratic engagement, especially through using e-governance are allowing greater access to fundamental rights for all our people.”
“India's fortune will depend on how many runs the little champion scores. There is no doubt Tendulkar is the real thing.”
“India's freedom must revolutionize the world's outlook upon Peace and War.”
Source: The Essential Writings
“India's freedom will not be won by violence but only by the purest suffering without retaliation.”
Source: The Quintessence of Gandhi in His Own Words
“India's future lies in being an open society, an open polity, a functioning democracy respecting all fundamental human freedoms, accepting the rule of law and, at the same time, to emerge as a successful, internationally competitive market economy.”
“India's great economic boom, the arrival of the Internet and outsourcing, have broken the wall between provincial India and the world.”
“India's growth rate will be accelerated, but in the process, America would also benefit.”
“India's had two groovy moments. Once when the Beatles went to India and now when Madonna has embraced yoga.”
“India's infrastructure has to be modernized, has to be expanded at a rate which will I think be consistent with the growth requirements.”
“India's notoriously difficult. It's visa routine is notoriously difficult to get a residency permit and all that stuff, so that threw up all kinds of complicated barriers for us. I remember once having to go meet with the foreign ministry official and say 'You know look I have a real problem here. Is this person really important to you?' And I just thought 'My God.' You know my wife and I have been together since college. You know it's 20 years.”
“India's openness to new ideas is manifest in the Rig Veda: Let noble thoughts come to us from all sides.”
“India's place in the sun would come from the partnership between wisdom of its rural people and skill of its professionals”
“India's political system also would need to be modernized.”
“India's role is not to interfere in what Nepal does but to support Nepal in their development. Nepal should scale new heights of progress.”
“India's saving rate will go up. India's investment rate will go up. And I believe that's a plus point.”
“India's sex ratio is 1000 boys for 940 girls. Who creates this disparity? It isn't God. Don't fill your coffers by sacrificing the mother's womb. People feel that sons will take care of them when they are old. But I have seen aged parents in old-age homes. I have seen families where one daughter serves parents more than five sons.”
“India's way is not Europe's. India is not Calcutta and Bombay. India lives in her seven hundred thousand villages.”
Source: Collected Works
“India, in particular, is looking to develop nuclear power for domestic, commercial use, and we should work with them. This is a good deal for both countries.”
“India, she now knew, would not be content staying in the background, was nobody's wallpaper, insisted in interjecting itself into everyone's life, meddling with it, twisting it, molding it beyond recognition. India, she had found out, was a place of political intrigue and economic corruption, a place occupied by real people with their incessantly human needs, desires, ambitions, and aspirations, and not the exotic, spiritual, mysterious entity that was a creation of the Western imagination.”
“India, the new myth--a collective fiction in which anything was possible, a fable rivalled only by the two other mighty fantasies: money and God.”
Source: Midnight's Children
“India, to some extent, courses through my blood. My father was brought up there, and my grandfather served there, and so on. We have a very strong family affinity for the place.”
“India, which is the nursery of the great faiths of the world”
Source: The Spiritual Works of Leo Tolstoy: A Confession, The Kingdom of God is Within You, What I Believe, Christianity and Patriotism, Reason and Religion, The Gospel in Brief and more: Lessons on What it Means to be a True Christian From the Greatest Russian Novelists and Author of War and Peace & Anna Karenina (Including Letter to a Kind YouthandCorrespondences with Gandhi)
“India-Seychelles relations have been characterized by close friendship, understanding and cooperation.”
“India.. a perfectly wonderful country, may have been motivated by a lack of self-esteem.”
“Indian actors know how to shout with the eyes.”
“Indian actors, because of the format of our stories, need to be good actors, and be able to perform emotional sequences, do a bit of comedy, dance and singing, action, because all of this forms just one film. In many ways I'd say there are greater demands on Indian actors than there are on Hollywood.”
“Indian army camp has picked up civilians of Panchayat banghia from thana mandi area & are withholding information about them. Nor are their worried family members being allowed to see them at the camp who fear for their lives because of the Topi episode where civilians were tortured to death in custody. Request @manojsinha_ji to intervene before a similar tragedy strikes these poor families.”
“Indian Art broadened my seeing, loosened the formal tightness I had learned in England's schools. Its bigness and stark reality baffled my white man's understanding... I had been schooled to see outsides only, not struggle to pierce.”
Source: The Emily Carr Omnibus
“Indian batsmen, including Virat Kohli will find it difficult to score runs against Pakistan.”