“What's happened recently in Pakistan, India and Kuwait only goes to show that it's futile to imitate Western democracy. They've ended up exactly where they started.” ShowsDemocracyHappenedIndiaWesternPakistanKuwait Author:Mohammed Reza Pahlavi
“I was born in 1965. When I grew up in India, there was no expectation that a good Muslim woman wore the headscarf. But what happened when I came here to the U.S. and the emergence of the Saudi and Iranian theologies in the world is that the headscarf became the hijab and the hijab is now the idea that is synonymous with headscarf.” WorldIdeasBornHappenedGrewGrew UpExpectationsIndiaTheologySaudisIranianEmergenceMuslim WomenHijab Author:Asra Nomani
“So India’s problem turns out to be the world’s problem. What happened in India has happened in God’s name. The problem’s name is God.” WorldProblemTurnsNamesHappenedIndiaRushdie Author:Salman Rushdie
“After India's victory in the war he was asked what would have happened if he had opted to be with the Pakistan Army at the time of partition in 1947, he quipped, then I guess Pakistan would have won.” IfsWarHappenedVictoryIndiaArmyPakistanBadassPartition Author:Sam Manekshaw
“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
“I think when you see so many Hindu temples of the 10th century or earlier disfigured, defaced, you realise that something terrible happened. I feel the civilisation of that closed world was mortally wounded by those invasions the old world is destroyed. That has to be understood. Ancient Hindu India was destroyed.” ThinkingWorldFeelsHappenedCenturyTerribleUnderstoodIndiaAncientDestroyedTemplesRealisingWoundedInvasionCivilisationOld World Author:V. S. Naipaul
“Captain Cook discovered Australia looking for the Terra Incognita. Christopher Columbus thought he was finding India but discovered America. History is full of events that happened because of an imaginary tale.” AmericaHappenedEventsFindingsIndiaTalesCooksAustraliaImaginaryCaptainsColumbus Author:Umberto Eco