“If you read the biography of any great man, you will always notice two things: His mother's contribution in his progress and his teacher's contribution in his growth and development.” IfsMenTwoMotherGrowthEducationTeacherProgressDevelopmentIndiaContributionTwo ThingsGreat MenBiographies Author:Narendra Modi
“Women have an important role in agriculture. We need to introduce technology, which will help us harness the potential of women in agriculture. We need to divide the agriculture sector into three parts- regular farming, farming of trees and animal husbandry. If we are able to do this, the contribution of our women will increase even more.” IfsNeedsImportantHelpingAbleThreeAnimalRolesTechnologyTreeEmpowermentIndiaIncreaseContributionDividesIntroducingAgricultureFarmingHarness Author:Narendra Modi
“Mother Teresa's numerical results were not her greatest contribution. Instead, she made the world-and especially India-conscious of compassion.” WorldMadeMotherResultsCompassionConsciousIndiaContributionTeresa Author:Peter Drucker
“The most distinctive and largest contribution of Hinduism to India's culture is the doctrine of ahimsa.” CultureIndiaDoctrineContributionHinduismDistinctiveAhimsa Book:Soul Force: Gandhi's Writings on Peace Source: Soul Force: Gandhi's Writings on Peace
“The states can make the finest contribution to the building of India's future independence if they set the right example in their own territories.” IfsStatesExampleBuildingIndiaIndependenceContributionTerritoryFinest Book:Gandhi on Nehru Source: Gandhi on Nehru
“All of us have to ensure that our future generations lead a life of peace, dignity and mutual respect. We need to sow the seeds of a conflict-free world, and in this endeavour, Buddhism and Hinduism have a great contribution.” WorldNeedsGenerationsBuddhismConflictEmpowermentDignityIndiaSeedsContributionMutualOur FutureHinduismFuture GenerationEndeavourMutual RespectFree World Author:Narendra Modi
“The so-called Philosophy of India is even more blowsy and senseless than the metaphysics of the West. It is at war with everything we know of the workings of the human mind, and with every sound idea formulated by mankind. If it prevailed in the whole modern world we'd still be in the Thirteenth Century; nay, we'd be back among the Egyptians of the pyramid age. Its only coherent contribution to Western thought has been theosophy-and theosophy is as idiotic as Christian Science. It has absolutely nothing to offer a civilized white man.” IfsKnowsMenWorldMindHumansHas BeensStillsIdeasWarPhilosophyWholeAgeChristianSoundWhiteModernMankindCenturyOffersIndiaWestWesternContributionCivilizedHuman MindMetaphysicsWhite ManModern WorldPyramidsAbsolutely NothingIdioticChristian Science Author:H. L. Mencken
“My main contribution was to demolish the myths that India couldn't economically afford nuclear weapons. Of course I made these political arguments too, but the main contribution I made was a study of the cost of acquiring a credible deterrent, and show that it was within the budget of India, and it would not be an unbearable burden.” MadeShowsPoliticalCoursesStudyCostWeaponsArgumentIndiaBurdenMythNuclearBudgetsContributionNuclear WeaponsUnbearableCredibleDeterrentDemolishPolitical Arguments Author:Subramanian Swamy
“One chronicler writes of an area of India during the end of the 20th century: Almost no-one in this slum was poor by Indian benchmarks. ... True, a few residents trapped rats and frogs and fried them for dinner. A few ate the scrub grass at the sewage lake edge. And these individuals, miserable souls, thereby made an inestimable contribution to their neighbors. They gave those slum dwellers who didn't fry rats and eat weeds a sense of their upward mobility.” WritingMadeSoulEndsIndividualPoorCenturyAreasIndiaEdgesDinnerNeighborMiserableIndianGrassContributionLakesWeedTrappedRats20th CenturyFrogsResidentsMobilitySlumsDwellersSewageUpward Mobility Author:Katherine Boo
“There has been no more revolutionary contribution than the one which the Hindus (Indians) made when they invented ZERO.” Has BeensMadeIndiaRevolutionaryContributionZeroHinduism Author:Lancelot Hogben
“I think the Tata Group's greatest contribution to the growth of the Indian economy and Indian industry probably happened in the pre-independence era. The Group's investments in industries such as steel, textiles, power and hotels were certainly driven by an entrepreneurial spirit, but they were driven even more, I think, by a desire to make India self-sufficient and independent of its colonial masters then.” ThinkingSelfSpiritDesireGrowthCompanyEconomyHappenedGroupsMastersIndustryIndiaIndependentIndependenceEntrepreneurInvestmentDrivenErasIndianSufficientContributionHotelSteelEntrepreneurialSelf SufficientTextilesEntrepreneurial SpiritTata Author:Ratan Tata
“India has indeed a great and free future before her, in which she can make her special contribution to the well-being of mankind. The first and indispensable part of that contribution is to work with the United Nations for the defeat of fascism and of brutal aggression.” FirstsWellsNationsUnitedSpecialMankindIndiaDefeatWell BeingContributionFascismAggressionBrutalIndispensableUnited NationsBeing Free Author:Stafford Cripps
“The ancient yogis discovered that the secret of cosmic consciousness is intimately linked with breath mastery. This is India's unique and deathless contribution to the world's treasury of knowledge. The life force, which is ordinarily absorbed in maintaining the heart-pump, must be freed for higher activities by a method of calming and stilling the ceaseless demands of the breath.” WorldHeartForceSecretConsciousnessHigherActivityDemandUniqueIndiaBreathsMethodAncientContributionCosmicMasteryLinkedMaintainingPumpsTreasuryCalmingYogiDeathlessCosmic Consciousness Author:Sri Yukteswar Giri