“With the idea that a single creator can build a society wherein a huge number of people will live, Le Corbusier later approached Stalin. In India, he charmed a powerful provincial family and ended up making huge, sculptural relics in Chandigarh.” PeopleIdeasPowerfulNumbersHugeIndiaCreatorRelicsCharmedHuge Numbers Author:Masato
“Dams are the temples of secular India and almost worshipped. They are huge, wet cement flags that wave in our minds. They're the symbol of nationalism to many.” MindHugeIndiaWaveSymbolsTemplesNationalismFlagsWetSecularCementDams Author:Arundhati Roy
“In a vast & huge country like India, e-governance is the only way for effective delivery unto the last.” WayCountryLastsHugeIndiaGovernanceDelivery Author:Narendra Modi
“I have a vision of a Modern India. I have embarked on a huge mission to convert that vision into reality. My mantra is Development.” RealityVisionModernHugeDevelopmentEmpowermentIndiaMissionsMantrasModern India Author:Narendra Modi
“Make in India! By this, we mean we want to give low cost manufacturing, ease of business, skilled manpower. India is a land of huge possibilities & scope.” WantGivingMeanLandPossibilityHugeCostLowsIndiaInnovationEaseScopeManufacturingManpowerMake In India Author:Narendra Modi
“There is more food in the world than we could possibly use. There's a huge surplus of food per capita, but it's locked away and rotting in the storehouses of the Western world, whereas in the East, in many parts of Africa, India and South America, people are starving to death. Millions of people are dying of starvation in a time in which there is a huge surplus of food.” PeopleWorldUseAmericaMillionsDyingHugeIndiaSouthWesternEastLockedStarvingStarvationWestern WorldSurplusRottingSouth America Author:Benjamin Creme
“We traditionally in this world didn't have enough calories to feed all of us and had huge famines, not just in Africa, but had them across India, across Southeast Asia, and across China. Because of Borlaug's work at Simit and because of this we have huge excess, until very recently, in agricultural produce and the prices went through the floor.” WorldEnoughThis WorldProduceHugeIndiaChinaExcessAsiaFamineCaloriesSoutheast Asia Author:Juan Enriquez
“India is a huge democracy. Prime Minister [Narendra] Modi has ambitions to try to fix the infrastructure, the rules, taxes, education, and to lift up the Indian people. And we're hopeful that that's going to create positive momentum.” PeopleTryingDemocracyHugeTaxesAmbitionIndiaIndianLiftsMinistersHopefulPrimePrime MinisterInfrastructureMomentum Author:Jamie Dimon
“East India Company were a huge multinational that had the added impetus that they felt they were spreading Christian civilization around the world - so they were pretty free to do anything they wanted.” WorldWantedChristianFeltCompanyHugeCivilizationIndiaEastAround The WorldImpetusMultinationals Author:Steven Knight
“In the forests of central India and in many, many rural areas, a huge battle is being waged. Millions of people are being driven off their lands by mining companies, by dams, by infrastructure companies, and a huge battle is being waged. These are not people who have been co-opted into consumer culture, into the western notions of civilisation and progress. They are fighting for their lands and their livelihoods, refusing to be looted so that someone somewhere far away may "progress" at their cost.” PeopleMayHas BeensCultureFightingCompanyMillionsProgressLandHugeBattleCostAreasIndiaWesternNotionDrivenForestsConsumersFar AwayInfrastructureCivilisationLivelihoodMiningDamsRural AreasConsumer Culture Author:Arundhati Roy
“Though people could, in principle, cross national borders to reach places where their work is more highly rewarded, they are in fact prevented from doing so. As a result, huge differences also persist in the price of labor, as you can see when you get a haircut in rural India or hire a driver or babysitter in Bolivia. You can easily buy such services at one-fiftieth the price you would pay in London, Hamburg or Manhattan.” PeopleFactsDifferencesResultsPayPrinciplesHugeLaborCrossesIndiaLondonBordersDriversPersistManhattanHaircutsBabysitterBoliviaNational Borders Author:Thomas Pogge
“The western model of growth that India and China wish to emulate is intrinsically toxic. It uses huge resources - energy and materials - and generates enormous waste... it remains many steps behind the problems it creates. India and China have no choice but to reinvent the development trajectory” UseProblemChoicesEnergyWishGrowthBehindsVisionStepsMaterialsHugeDevelopmentFutureWasteModelsResourcesIndiaRemainsWesternChinaEnormousToxicSustainable DevelopmentEmulateTrajectory Author:Sunita Narain
“Thirty years ago, if you said the country was living beyond its means, people would have thought about economics. Now, if you talk about the country, or the planet living beyond its means, you think about the environment. We are taking out more than we are giving back. We are consuming energy, water, and other natural resources in a way that is leading to huge and often irreversible damage to the planet. So too are most other developed nations. And so too will China and India if they follow the same path of economic development as us” PeopleIfsThinkingWayGivingYearsMeanSaidCountryEnergyNationsWaterNaturalPathEnvironmentEconomicPlanetsHugeDevelopmentResourcesYears AgoEconomicsIndiaChinaThirtyDamageGiving BackConsumingThirty YearsNatural ResourcesMean PeopleEconomic DevelopmentIrreversibleChina And IndiaDeveloped Nations Author:David Miliband