“In my father's language: "To create something out of nothing." That possibility exists in India even in old-world sectors like agriculture.” WorldFatherLanguagePossibilityIndiaAgricultureOld World Author:Mukesh Ambani
“My father did irrigation jobs, and I would sometimes accompany him, and that gave me a taste of what was going on in the innards of India.” SometimesJobsFatherTasteIndiaAccompanyIrrigation Author:Imtiaz Ali
“My father's own view was more than entrepreneurship; it was really a passion to build an institution in India.” PassionFatherViewsIndiaInstitutionsEntrepreneurship Author:Nita Ambani
“My father was a civil servant in northern India where I was born. As a boy I saw the dire effects of poverty and illiteracy, especially on women and children. It often seemed that the only thing separating me from them was luck.” ChildrenFatherBornBoysPovertySawsEffectsIndiaLuckServantSeparatingIlliteracyCivil Servants Author:Naveen Jain
“Where the mind is led forward by thee into ever-widening thought and action-Into that heaven of freedom, my father, let my country awake.” MindCountryActionFatherHeavenIndiaIndependenceTheeIndianAwakeIndependence DayThoughts And ActionsRepublic DayIndependence And FreedomHappy Independence Day IndiaHappy Independence DayIndia Independence DayInspiring Independence DayIndian Independence DayIndependence Of ThoughtDesert Sand Book:Poems Source: Poems
“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.” CoursesFatherStrongBloodIndiaVery StrongGrandfatherMy GrandfatherAffinityStrong Family Author:John Gimlette
“My father had been a forester and I had grown up on those hills. I had seen forests and streams disappear. I jumped into Chipko movement and started to work with the peasant women. I learned from them about what forests mean for a rural woman in India in terms of firewood and fodder and medicinal plants and rich knowledge.” MeanFatherTermRichMovementIndiaPlantDisappearForestsHillsStreamsPeasantsFodderFirewood Author:Vandana Shiva
“The first and foremost priority is to finish the unfinished task which the founding fathers of India set out for us at the time of our independence: to get rid of chronic poverty, ignorance, and disease, which have afflicted millions and millions of our people.” PeopleFirstsFatherPovertyMillionsIgnoranceDiseaseTasksIndiaIndependencePrioritiesFoundingUnfinished Author:Manmohan Singh
“I always defended my father, as a child, and I think I'm still defending him - his policies at least. Oh, he wasn't at all a politician, in no sense of the word. He was sustained in his work only by a blind faith in India - he was preoccupied in such an obsessive way by the future of India. We understood each other.” ThinkingWayChildrenStillsFatherPolicyPoliticianUnderstoodIndiaBlindObsessiveBlind Faith Author:Indira Gandhi
“Whether when I was a child and fought the British in the Monkey brigade, or when I was a girl and wanted to have children, or when I was a woman and devoted myself to my father, making my husband angry. Each time I stayed involved all the way in my decision, and took the consequences. Even if I was fighting for things that didn't concern India.” IfsWayChildrenWantedGirlFightingFatherDecisionInvolvedHusbandConsequenceConcernIndiaAngryBritishMy HusbandDevotedMonkeys Author:Indira Gandhi
“I said that my father was not a politician. I, instead, think I am. But not in the sense of being interested in a political career - rather in the sense that I think it necessary to strive to build a certain India, the India I want.” ThinkingWantSaidPoliticalCertainFatherCareersPoliticianIndiaStrive Author:Indira Gandhi
“I spent a lot of time in India with my father. I don't know all about their religion. But I know they love God. And I don't know. I've seen their sincerity.” KnowsFatherIndiaGod LoveSincerity Author:Joel Osteen
“Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high, where knowledge is free. Where the world has not been broken up into fragments by narrow domestic walls. Where words come out from the depth of truth, where tireless striving stretches its arms toward perfection. Where the clear stream of reason has not lost it's way into the dreary desert sand of dead habit. Where the mind is led forward by thee into ever widening thought and action. In to that heaven of freedom, my father, LET MY COUNTRY AWAKE!” WorldWayMindCountryReasonActionFatherLostHeavenClearBrokenWallArmsHabitPerfectionIndiaIndependenceStriveDepthTheeDesertIndianAwakeStreamsSandFragmentsIndependence DayDrearyThoughts And ActionsBroken UpRepublic DayIndependence And FreedomHappy Independence Day IndiaHappy Independence DayIndia Independence DayInspiring Independence DayIndian Independence DayIndependence Of ThoughtDesert Sand Book:Gitanjali: Collection of Tagore Poems Source: Gitanjali: Collection of Tagore Poems
“After the fire, when I'd tried to express my gratitude for their kindness to our customers, they'd been awkward, uncomfortable. My father had had to explain to me that giving thanks is not a common practice in India. 'Then how do you know if people appreciated what you did?' I'd asked. 'Do you really need to know?' my father had asked back.” PeopleIfsKnowsNeedsGivingFatherCommonPracticeKindnessFireGratitudeIndiaCustomersThanksUncomfortableDo You KnowAwkwardSelflessnessAppreciated Book:Queen of Dreams Source: Queen of Dreams
“It is hope in this wider sense which enabled my father to build, from scratch, one of India's largest modern enterprises. His was an undertaking powered by hard work, initiative, self-belief but, above all else, the capacity, as he would often say, "to dream with your eyes wide open".” SelfHardDreamEyeFatherBeliefGoalModernHard WorkAmbitionCommitmentCapacityIndiaWideEnterpriseInitiativeScratchesUndertakingsBeliveBelief In SelfEyes Wide Open Author:Anil Ambani
“I spent the past week here in India getting a sense of the reality of HIV and AIDS in people's lives. Fathers and mothers are dying, leaving children with no support. Stigma and discrimination is ruining the family lives. There is an urgent need for education, information, and increased awareness of HIV and AIDS. The response needs to be now. We cannot afford to become fatigued.” PeopleNeedsChildrenRealityPastMotherFightingFatherSupportWeekDyingAwarenessInformationIndiaResponseLeavingAidsDiscriminationUrgentFamily LifeHivStigmaHiv Aids Author:Ralph Fiennes
“We made no inquiries about India or about the families people had left behind. When our ways of thinking had changed, and we wished to know, it was too late. I know nothing of the people on my father's side; I know only that some of them came from Nepal” PeopleThinkingKnowsWayMadeFatherLeftSidesBehindsChangedLateIndiaToo LateInquiryLeft BehindWay Of ThinkingNepal Book:Literary Occasions: Essays Source: Literary Occasions: Essays
“The principal end both of my father and of myself in the conquest of India... has been the propagation of the holy Catholic faith.” Has BeensEndsFatherHolyIndiaCatholicPrincipalConquestPropagationCatholic Faith Author:Ignatius of Loyola
“The food we ate was Indian, and both my mother and father were very deep into the ancient philosophy of India, so it could well have been an Indian household.” WellsHas BeensPhilosophyMotherFatherIndiaAncientIndianHouseholdVery DeepMother And FatherAncient Philosophy Author:Amar Bose