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“Trickle-down theories do not address the legitimate aspirations of the poor. We must lift those at the bottom so that poverty is erased from the dictionary of modern India.”

Poor Poverty Modern Theory India Bottom Lifts Aspiration Addresses Dictionary Trickle Down Modern India

Author:Pranab Mukherjee

“Urban development initiatives must match the aspirations of the middle class and the neo middle class.”

Class Middle Development India Aspiration Middle Class Initiative Urban Governance Urban Development

Author:Narendra Modi

“Congress' dynastic politics has shattered the hopes & aspirations of people. Congress hides behind the veil of secularism whenever its governance falters and its misconduct is exposed. This will no longer go unchallenged. The younger generation will not accept these actions of Congress!”

People Action Politics Behinds Accepting Generations India Congress Aspiration Exposed Veils Governance Secularism Shattered Younger Generation Misconduct

Author:Narendra Modi

“A new institution with new design, structure, body, soul, new thinking, and direction will replace the Planning Commission. It will be one that caters to the aspirations of 21st century India.”

Thinking Soul Body Century Design India Institutions Structure Planning Aspiration 21st Century Governance

Author:Narendra Modi

“This budget is a Sanjeevani (new life) and an Arunoday (sunrise) for the last man in the line. This budget converts hopes and aspirations of the people into trust. It adds a new ray of hope for the poor and downtrodden sections of the society.”

People Men Lasts Lines Poor India Add Budgets Aspiration Rays Sunrise Sections New Life Governance Downtrodden Ray Of Hope

Author:Narendra Modi

“The 'Idea of India' is an India of opportunity and aspiration. An India where: all are prosperous and happy, all are free from illness.”

Ideas Opportunity India Illness Aspiration Governance Prosperous

Author:Narendra Modi

“We need to assume that aspirations of people in villages are nothing less than the aspirations of people in the cities. They need a change in their lifestyle.”

People Needs Cities Empowerment India Assuming Lifestyle Aspiration Village Need A Change

Author:Narendra Modi

“About 800 million people in India are below the age of 35 years. Their aspirations, energy, enterprise and skills will be the force for India's economic transformation.”

People Years Age Energy Force Millions Economic Youth Skills India Transformation Aspiration Enterprise

Author:Narendra Modi

“India is the meeting-place of the religions and among these Hinduism alone is by itself a vast and complex thing, not so much a religion as a great diversified and yet subtly unified mass of spiritual thought, realization and aspiration.”

Spiritual Mass India Meetings Complexes Realization Aspiration Hinduism Unified Sri Lanka Hindu Religion

Author:Sri Aurobindo

“Our task today is to bring India to the threshold of the twenty-first century, free of burden of poverty, legacy of our colonial past, and capable of meeting the rising aspirations of our people.”

People Firsts Today Past Poverty Century Capable Tasks India Twenties Meetings Burden Legacy Aspiration Rising Threshold

Book:Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi: statements on foreign policy, May-August 1985

Source: Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi: statements on foreign policy, May-August 1985

“India has, of course, aspirations of getting out of its poverty, ignorance, and disease which still afflict millions of people. But I do believe that we have something to offer to the rest of the world, including the United States.”

People World Believe Stills States Courses United Poverty Millions United States Ignorance Offers Disease India Including Aspiration

Author:Manmohan Singh

“There are diverse ways in which - right now, terror and all that goes with it is a prime concern. It's a concern of the United States. It's a concern of India. Joint strategies, cooperation, joint sharing of intelligence, in controlling terrorism, in making the world free from terror. I think that's the fundamental, I think, consideration if our development aspirations are to be fulfilled. And I think our two countries can cooperate.”

“India and Burma have been close friends since the days we were struggling for independence. And I'm a great admirer of Mahatma Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru, and all those leaders of India's independence movement. I would like to believe the aspirations and hopes we shared in the past will continue to bind us in the future.”

Believe Has Beens Past Leader Struggle Movement India Independence Aspiration Close Friends Admirer Burma Nehru

Author:Aung San Suu Kyi

“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.”

“Comrades ! You have voluntarily accepted a mission that is the noblest that the human mind can conceive of. For the fulfillment of such a mission no sacrifice is too great, not even the sacrifice of one's life. You are today the custodians of India's national honour and the embodiment of India's hopes and aspirations. So conduct yourself that your countrymen may bless you and posterity may be proud of you.”

Source: Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose and 21st century India: a special number on Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose