“All over India, all over the world, as the sun or the shadow of darkness moves from east to west, the call to prayer moves with it, and people kneel down in a wave to pray to God. Five waves each day - one for each namaaz - ripple across the globe from longitude to longitude. The component elements change direction, like iron filings near a magnet - towards the house of God in Mecca.” PeopleWorldMovingHousePrayerDarknessSunFivePrayingElementsShadowIndiaWestWaveEastEach DayIronGlobesComponentsPraying To GodMagnetRippleMeccaFilingHouse Of God Book:A Suitable Boy Source: A Suitable Boy
“India lives in several centuries at the same time. Every night outside my house I pass a road gang of emaciated laborers digging a trench to lay fiber optic cables to speed up digital revolution. They work by the light of a few candles.” LightNightHouseCenturyRevolutionIndiaLaysSpeedDigitalCandleEvery NightGangCablesDiggingFiberTrenchesLaborersDigital Revolution Author:Arundhati Roy
“Good roads, good houses, adequate electricity, good schools or good hospitals in the village are indeed, the parameters of progress. However, in my view, 100 percent literate village is the true symbol of real progress.” RealSchoolHouseViewsEducationProgressPercentIndiaSymbolsHospitalsVillageElectricityAdequateParametersGood School Author:Narendra Modi
“It means food on every table, every child in school, a job for everybody and a house with toilet and electricity for every family. This will make India proud. We can achieve this through unity. Unity strengthens us. Division weakens us.” MeanChildrenSchoolJobsHouseEmpowermentIndiaTablesUnityDivisionElectricityToilets Author:Narendra Modi
“It is our dream that by the time we celebrate the 75th year of independent India, all the slums are replaced by cemented houses.” YearsDreamHouseEmpowermentIndiaIndependentCelebrateReplacedOur DreamsSlums Author:Narendra Modi
“You can continue your practice, you can exercise kindness, you can practice meditation whether you're in a prison or a millionaire's house, whether you're in India or Tibet.” HousePracticeKindnessMeditationExerciseIndiaPrisonMillionaireTibet Author:Pico Iyer
“Jesus Christ knew he was God. So wake up and find out eventually who you really are. In our culture, of course, they’ll say you’re crazy and you’re blasphemous, and they’ll either put you in jail or in a nut house (which is pretty much the same thing). However if you wake up in India and tell your friends and relations, ‘My goodness, I’ve just discovered that I’m God,’ they’ll laugh and say, ‘Oh, congratulations, at last you found out.” IfsLastsCultureCoursesFoundHouseJesusChristLaughingCrazyGoodnessJesus ChristIndiaRelationWake UpJailNutsCongratulations Author:Alan Watts
“From the Vedas we learn a practical art of surgery, medicine, music, house building under which mechanized art is included. They are encyclopedia of every aspect of life, culture, religion, science, ethics, law, cosmology and meteorology.” ArtLawCultureHouseBuildingEthicsArt IsAspectIndiaMedicinePracticalsHinduismSurgeryCosmologyAspects Of LifeScience ReligionEncyclopediaVedasMeteorologyCulture Religion Author:William James
“The day I was born, my house burnt down; the day I left home, the Twin Towers burnt down; and I lived in a jungle in India at 15.” HomeHouseLeftBornIndiaDown AndTwinsTowersJungleTwin Towers Author:Neon Hitch