“'Slumdog' was my first movie, and I had never been to India before - I was just a teenager in the U.K. with my headphones and my Nike shoes. What did I know about growing up in a slum?” KnowsFirstsGrowing UpGrowingIndiaShoesTeenagerSlumsNikeHeadphonesNike Shoe Author:Dev Patel
“When I was growing up, my parents told me, 'Finish your dinner. People in China and India are starving.' I tell my daughters, 'Finish your homework. People in India and China are starving for your job.'” PeopleJobsMotherParentEducationGrowing UpGrowingDaughterIndiaChinaDinnerMy DaughterStarvingHomeworkChina And IndiaWorld Is Flat Author:Thomas Friedman
“To balance China, the democracies will need new friends - and India with its fast-growing economy, youthful population, and democratic politics seems the obvious candidate.” NeedsSeemsEconomyDemocracyGrowingBalanceIndiaDemocraticPopulationObviousChinaCandidatesNew FriendsGrowing Economy Author:David Frum
“With support jobs moving to China and India, it's not surprising that English-speaking countries' top frustration revolves around the difficulty of understanding customer service representatives. However, even if the level of customer service is exceptional, the extent to which poorly-understood accents trump quality of service speaks to English-speaking customers' growing intolerance of non-native speech, more so than in other countries.” IfsCountryJobsMovingSpeakUnderstandingLevelsQualitySupportGrowingTrumpSpeechUnderstoodIndiaDifficultyChinaCustomersNativeFrustrationSurprisingIntoleranceRepresentativesOther CountriesAccentsExceptionalEnglish SpeakingChina And India Author:Bob Hayes
“If you want your energy bills to go up, you should support an ever greater dependence on foreign oil, because the rate of new discoveries is declining as demand in China and India is growing, and the price of oil and thus the price of coal will go sky high.” IfsWantShouldEnergySupportGreaterGrowingSkyDemandDiscoveryIndiaBillsRateChinaOilDependenceCoalGoreNew DiscoveriesForeign OilChina And IndiaSky High Author:Al Gore
“We cannot forget that we live and have been living for many years in the midst of an empire. We cannot forget that the different provinces of India are gradually coming closer to one another and a new nationality which comprises not only the different provinces but the whole of India is growing up in our midst and we cannot forget that our interests, even our selfish interests, our hopes, our ambitions are indissolubly connected with the interest of the empire.” YearsHas BeensDifferentWholeInterestForgetGrowing UpGrowingAmbitionIndiaConnectedSelfishEmpiresMidstNationalityProvincesSelfish Interest Author:Chittaranjan Das
“Instead of disbursing her annual millions for these dye stuffs, England will, beyond question, at no distant day become herself the greatest coloring producing country in the world; nay, by the very strangest of revolutions she may ere long send her coal-derived blues to indigo-growing India, her tar-distilled crimson to cochineal-producing Mexico, and her fossil substitutes for quercitron and safflower to China, Japan and the other countries whence these articles are now derived.” WorldMayLongCountryStuffMillionsGrowingRevolutionIndiaEnglandBlueChinaJapanSubstitutesArticlesMexicoOther CountriesCoalFossilsAnnualsCrimsonIndigo Author:August Wilhelm von Hofmann
“Here's the truth: even if countries like the United States curb our emissions, if growing countries like India - with soaring energy needs - don't also embrace cleaner fuels, then we don't stand a chance against climate change.” IfsNeedsCountryStatesEnergyChangeChanceUnitedUnited StatesGrowingIndiaEmbraceClimateClimate ChangeFuelSoarEmissionsCleanersCurb Author:Barack Obama
“I grew up falling in love with kind of story, amazing, wonder tale of the East, which if you're a child growing up in India is all around you.And I think one of the gifts it gave me as a writer was this early knowledge that stories are not true.” IfsThinkingKindChildrenStoriesFallWonderGrowing UpGrowingGrewGrew UpIndiaFalling In LoveEastTalesChildren Growing UpGrowing Children Author:Salman Rushdie
“I am firmly convinced that the trend toward more fuel-efficient vehicles is not a fad. Gas prices will continue to rise in the medium to long term, because demand is growing considerably in China, India and other countries.” LongCountryTermGrowingDemandIndiaChinaConvincedMediumsLong TermFuelGasTrendsEfficientVehicleOther CountriesFadsGas Prices Author:Norbert Reithofer
“When I was growing up, everyone around me was fond of fooling around with words. It was certainly common in my family, but I think it is typical of Bombay, and maybe of India, that there is a sense of play in the way people use language.” PeopleThinkingWayPlayUseLanguageCommonGrowing UpGrowingMy FamilyIndiaTypicalBombayFooling Around Author:Salman Rushdie
“Newspaper readership is still growing in India.” StillsGrowingIndiaNewspapersReadership Author:Bill Gates
“Fortunately for India, it has got a growing economy. If it is doing the right things with taxation and focusing on the right areas for human development, it is going to have no problem, over a period of time, taking care of its own needs.” IfsNeedsHumansProblemCareEconomyGrowingDevelopmentPeriodsAreasIndiaRight ThingNo ProblemTaxationDoing The Right ThingHuman DevelopmentGrowing Economy Author:Bill Gates
“As a young boy growing up in rural India, most of what I knew of the world was what I could see around me. But each night, I would look at the Moon - it was impossibly far away, yet it held a special attraction because it allowed me to dream beyond my village and country, and think about the rest of the world and space.” ThinkingWorldLooksCountryDreamYoungNightSpaceBoysGrowing UpGrowingSpecialMoonIndiaAttractionVillageFar Away Author:Naveen Jain
“Growing up in India, I knew all I needed to change the world was one good opportunity, and I prepared myself for it. When that opportunity came - in the form of the chance to earn an engineering degree - I was ready.” WorldFormOpportunityChanceGrowing UpGrowingReadyNeededDegreesIndiaPreparedChanging The WorldEngineeringGood Opportunity Author:Naveen Jain
“I want the marginality to come into the center. This is the thing I was conscious of growing up, when I later lived in England. I saw all these war movies that came out shortly after the war, and they were all about the war being fought by Englishmen or Americans, there were no other "allies" in it - from India or Australia, etc.” WantWarGrowing UpSawsGrowingConsciousIndiaEnglandEtcAustraliaAlliesEnglishmenWar Movie Author:Michael Ondaatje
“China has, all of a sudden, found a way of putting the best of the best to work to build an economy that is growing at 10% to 12% per year, and now India is following. And those changes and how quickly they've come out of this mess, how little debt they have, is really important.” WayYearsLittlesImportantFoundEconomyGrowingIndiaFollowingChinaDebtMessBest Of The Best Author:Juan Enriquez
“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.” IfsWritingFirstsStoriesLiteratureSexAudienceEconomyGrowing UpGrowingMagicInfluenceRevolutionDrugFirst TimeIndiaWesternOpeningIndianDramaticRealismOpening UpSlumsPartitionMagic Realism Author:Karan Bajaj
“The reality that we were growing up in was very young and vibrant, and nobody was capturing that part of India. I started to backpack after getting out of college. I hiked and did a lot of things nobody was capturing in art at all in India, so I wrote my first novel. It was a very, trippy, experience-filled novel, and it ended up doing very well in India because nobody was writing about that at that point.” WritingFirstsWellsArtRealityYoungNovelGrowing UpGrowingCollegeIndiaFilledTrippy Author:Karan Bajaj
“My dad is an engineer by trade but worked a lot with the people in the Indian film industry when I was growing up. He started out distributing films from India here in the '70s because there was no place to go for people to watch movies from the homeland. So he developed a network of actors, writers, directors, and musicians that became his friends and that he would tour around the country with, doing stage shows of the musical numbers from their films.” PeopleCountryShowsFilmActorsNumbersWatchesGrowing UpGrowingStageIndustryDadDirectorsMusicianIndiaTradeMusicalMy DadIndianEngineersHomelandFilm IndustryPlaces To GoWatch Movie Author:Meera Menon
“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
“We definitely have a lot of talent in India for football. It is great to see football's growing popularity and I really hope a larger number of corporate companies invest in the game so that one day we have a great team to boast about.” GamesNumbersCompanyGrowingTeamTalentFootballOne DayIndiaCorporatePopularityBoastGreat Team Author:Suresh Raina
“Today, of course, the world's perception of India has changed tremendously. People understand its role in world affairs; they understand that India is not some backward nation. In fact, it is the fastest growing free-market democracy in the world today, and that says it all.” PeopleWorldFactsTodayCoursesNationsRolesDemocracyGrowingChangedPerceptionIndiaAffairFree MarketWorld TodayWorld Affairs Author:Kabir Bedi
“Even if America tomorrow - and it won't happen overnight - but if we did reduce our demand for gas and natural gas and crude oil by a significant degree, that does have an exponential effect on producers in the Middle East, everything else being equal. But if China's demand is growing and India's demand is growing, they are not going back.” IfsDoeHappensAmericaNaturalGrowingMiddleEffectsTomorrowDemandEqualDegreesIndiaChinaOilEastSignificantProducersGasMiddle EastCrudeNatural GasBeing EqualCrude Oil Author:Thomas Friedman
“I'm an Asian guy growing up in London so I see myself as British, but India is part of my culture.” GuyCultureGrowing UpGrowingIndiaBritishLondonAsian Author:Dev Patel