“The greatest problem all around the world today, whether in America, Japan, China, Russia, India or anywhere else in the world, is that people are not in peace. People want peace.” PeopleWorldWantProblemTodayAmericaIndiaChinaRussiaAround The WorldJapanWorld Today Author:Prem Rawat
“Hundreds of millions of people around the world have been lifted out of poverty with the creation of robust middle classes in India and China, which is an enormously positive development for those countries that also creates opportunities for the rest of the world.” PeopleWorldHas BeensCountryOpportunityClassPovertyMillionsMiddleCreationDevelopmentIndiaChinaAround The WorldMiddle ClassRobust Author:Dan Quayle
“China is building cities for a 20 to 40 percent increase in population. India is quickly growing. The carbon footprints of that and other development around the world are overwhelming.” WorldCitiesGrowingBuildingDevelopmentPercentIndiaIncreasePopulationChinaAround The WorldOverwhelmingCarbonFootprintCarbon Footprint Author:Frank Gehry
“There have been so many nations around the world that have had female leaders, including India.” WorldHas BeensNationsLeaderFemaleIndiaIncludingAround The WorldFemale Leaders Author:Priyanka Chopra
“East India Company were a huge multinational that had the added impetus that they felt they were spreading Christian civilization around the world - so they were pretty free to do anything they wanted.” WorldWantedChristianFeltCompanyHugeCivilizationIndiaEastAround The WorldImpetusMultinationals Author:Steven Knight
“Although many swamis and yogis had come from India to the West, Prabhupada was the only one with the purity and devotion to establish India's ancient Krishna conscious philosophy around the world on its own terms-not watered down, but as it is.” WorldPhilosophyTermConsciousIndiaWestAncientDevotionAround The WorldPurityKrishnaYogi Author:Mukunda Goswami
“I'm a radical pro-immigration advocate. I'm not saying we just look at the Muslim world or we just look at China, we just look at India as a source of our talent. But, one thing we know... first or second generation or new immigrants or children of immigrants have started about 40% of the Fortune 500 companies. For me it's always been a really very important issue that I want America to be open to the most energetic and talented people from around the world.” PeopleKnowsWorldWantFirstsLooksChildrenImportantAmericaCompanyIssuesGenerationsOne ThingTalentSourceIndiaFortuneChinaImmigrationAround The WorldRadicalImmigrantsEnergeticImportant IssuesMuslim World Author:Thomas Friedman
“The rich and powerful countries are trying to wreck as much as possible. You know, go off the cliff as soon as you can. Extract every drop of hydrocarbons off the ground and destroy the environment. At the opposite extreme are countries like Bolivia and Ecuador, indigenous people around the world, and first nations in Canada and tribal people in India, campesinos in Colombia... They're trying to save the commons.” PeopleKnowsWorldTryingFirstsCountryNationsPowerfulRichEnvironmentOppositesIndiaExtremesAround The WorldCanadaIndigenousCliffsWrecksColombiaIndigenous PeopleBoliviaEcuadorHydrocarbonsPowerful Countries Author:Noam Chomsky
“We stole countries with the cunning use of flags. Just sail around the world and stick a flag in. "I claim India for Britain!" They're going "You can't claim us, we live here! Five hundred million of us!" "Do you have a flag …? "No..." "Well, if you don't have a flag, then you can't have a country. Those are the rules... that I just made up!” IfsWorldWellsMadeCountryUseMillionsFiveHundredIndiaClaimsSticksAround The WorldBritainFlagsSailCunning Author:Eddie Izzard
“Looking a dead insect in the sack of basmati that had come all the way from Dehra Dun, he almost wept with sorrow and marvel at its journey, which was tenderness for his own journey. In India almost nobody would be able to afford this rice, and you had to travel around the world to be able to eat such things where they were cheap enough that you could gobble them down without being rich; and when you got home to the place where they grew, you couldn't afford them anymore.” WorldWayEnoughHomeWould BeAbleRichJourneyGrewSorrowIndiaAround The WorldTendernessInsectsRiceBeing Rich Author:Kiran Desai
“In India, as elsewhere in our darkening world, religion is the poison in the blood. Where religion intervenes, mere innocence is no excuse. Yet we go on skating around this issue, speaking of religion in the fashionable language of 'respect.' What is there to respect in any of this, or in any of the crimes now being committed almost daily around the world in religion's dreaded name?” WorldReligionNamesLanguageIssuesBloodAtheismCrimeGoes OnIndiaMereCommittedExcuseAround The WorldInnocencePoisonElsewhereFashionableSkatingNo ExcusesWorld ReligionsDarkening Author:Salman Rushdie
“Jesus must have been a really great artist in creating enemies because he was only thirty-three when he was crucified, and there were only three years of work because he appeared at the age of thirty. Up to that time he was with the mystery schools, going around the world to Egypt, to India, and the possibility is even to Tibet and to Japan.” WorldYearsHas BeensAgeSchoolArtistThreeJesusChristEnemyMysteryPossibilityCreatingJesus ChristIndiaAround The WorldThirtyJapanThree YearsReally GreatEgyptGreat ArtGreat ArtistTibet Author:Rajneesh
“For in Asia and around the world, India is not simply emerging; India has already emerged. And it is my firm belief that the relationship between the United States and India - bound by our shared interests and values - will be one of the defining partnerships of the 21st century. This is the partnership I have come here to build. This is the vision that our nations can realise together.” WorldStatesTogetherValuesBeliefNationsInterestInspiringUnitedVisionUnited StatesCenturyIndiaBoundsAround The WorldFirmRealisingPartnership21st CenturyAsiaDefiningEmergingFirm Beliefs Author:Barack Obama
“I'd worked on leprosy and malaria in India [at the World Bank] and asked myself the question: Why do we let 2 million children die every year around the world for not having clean water? Because they're faceless and nameless. So, for me, Facebook looked like it was going to solve the problem of the invisible victim.” WorldYearsChildrenProblemDiesWomenWaterWorkCareersMillionsIndiaVictimCleanSolveInvisibleAround The WorldNamelessClean WaterMalariaFacelessWorld BankLeprosy Author:Sheryl Sandberg