“Our federal Constitution embodies the idea of modern India: it defines not only India but also modernity.” IdeasModernIndiaConstitutionModernityModern India Author:Pranab Mukherjee
“Propelled by freedom of faith, gender equality and economic justice for all, India will become a modern nation. Minor blemishes cannot cloak the fact that India is becoming such a modern nation: no faith is in danger in our country, and the continuing commitment to gender equality is one of the great narratives of our times.” CountryFactsNationsJusticeEconomicModernDangerBecomingCommitmentIndiaGenderOur CountryNarrativeOur TimeMinorsContinuingGender EqualityCloaksEconomic JusticeJustice For All Author:Pranab Mukherjee
“Trickle-down theories do not address the legitimate aspirations of the poor. We must lift those at the bottom so that poverty is erased from the dictionary of modern India.” PoorPovertyModernTheoryIndiaBottomLiftsAspirationAddressesDictionaryTrickle DownModern India Author:Pranab Mukherjee
“I am very interested in human-interest stories emerging from modern India. I get my inspiration and daily dose by reading the Hindustan Times.” HumansStoriesInspirationReadingInterestModernIndiaEmergingDoseModern India Author:Vikas Swarup
“The British Government in India constitutes a struggle between modern civilization, which is the Kingdom of Satan, and the ancient civilization, which is the Kingdom of God.” GovernmentStruggleModernCivilizationIndiaAncientBritishKingdomsSatanKingdom Of GodModern CivilizationAncient CivilizationsBritish Government Book:Hind Swaraj Source: Hind Swaraj
“The budget is forward looking growth engine and will promote transparency and integrity. It is for the common people. This budget shows where we want to take India through railways. It budget aspires for better service, speed and safety. It is an effort to create modern railways contributing towards a developed India.” PeopleWantShowsPoliticsGrowthCommonEffortModernIntegrityIndiaSafetySpeedBudgetsEnginesAspireTransparencyContributingRailway Author:Narendra Modi
“Space may seem distant, but is an integral part of our daily life. It drives our modern communication and connects even the remotest family to the ordinary. India's space programme is a perfect example of our vision of Scale, Speed and Skill.” MaySeemsSpacePerfectVisionTechnologyModernExampleCommunicationSkillsOrdinaryIndiaSpeedScalesDaily LifeProgrammesInformation TechnologyModern Communication Author:Narendra Modi
“Modern science is a catalyst agent to fulfil the needs of humankind. We must ensure that it reaches to poorest of the poor.” NeedsPoorEducationModernIndiaAgentsHumankindPoorestCatalystModern Science Author:Narendra Modi
“India is committed to strong armed forces, well-equipped with modern arms & technology!” WellsStrongForceTechnologyModernArmsIndiaCommittedGovernanceArmed Forces 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
“In the old days, people used to risk their lives in India or in the Americas in order to bring back products which now seem to us to have been of comically little worth, such as brazilwood and pepper, which added a new range of sense experience to a civilization which had never suspected its own insipidity... From these same lands our modern Marco Polos now bring back the moral spices of which our society feels an increasing need as it is conscious of sinking further into boredom, but that this time they take the form of photographs, books, and travelers tales.” PeopleNeedsFeelsLittlesHas BeensBookSeemsFormUsedOrderMoralRiskModernLandProductsCivilizationConsciousIndiaPhotographTalesRangeBoredomOur SocietyTravelerSpicesOld DaysSinkingPeppersMarcosPoloMarco Polo Author:Claude Levi-Strauss
“The ’60s was the last time when large groups of people in the West searched for alternative modes of being. In a society like India’s, which is still not fully modern or totally organized, and has a great deal of tolerance for otherness in general, they find the cultural license to try other things, to be whatever they want to be.” PeopleWantTryingLastsDealsGroupsModernIndiaWestToleranceAlternativesOrganizedLast TimeLicenseOthernessLarge Groups Author:Pankaj Mishra
“The so-called Philosophy of India is even more blowsy and senseless than the metaphysics of the West. It is at war with everything we know of the workings of the human mind, and with every sound idea formulated by mankind. If it prevailed in the whole modern world we'd still be in the Thirteenth Century; nay, we'd be back among the Egyptians of the pyramid age. Its only coherent contribution to Western thought has been theosophy-and theosophy is as idiotic as Christian Science. It has absolutely nothing to offer a civilized white man.” IfsKnowsMenWorldMindHumansHas BeensStillsIdeasWarPhilosophyWholeAgeChristianSoundWhiteModernMankindCenturyOffersIndiaWestWesternContributionCivilizedHuman MindMetaphysicsWhite ManModern WorldPyramidsAbsolutely NothingIdioticChristian Science Author:H. L. Mencken
“For the longest time, Indian women have been okay with being curvy. But I think the modern Indian woman needs to get toned. I don't endorse being thin. Anorexia and bulimia are a reality in India because everybody wants to be thin.” ThinkingWantNeedsHas BeensRealityModernOkayIndiaIndianAnorexiaBulimiaCurvyAnorexia And Bulimia Author:Bipasha Basu
“I think the structures of exclusion are more systematically built up in American society, for example, so that young girls interested in science eventually lose their confidence over time. The structures of exclusion work against them. We have other structures of exclusion in India, but not around modern scientific knowledge.” ThinkingYoungGirlLosesModernExampleBuiltIndiaStructureExclusionAmerican SocietyScientific Knowledge Author:Vandana Shiva
“The first issue that compelled me was a very strange split between India being highly development scientifically (we were the third biggest scientific manpower in the world then) and yet at the same time struggling with amazing poverty. The linear equation that says that modern science equals progress and the reduction of poverty did not apply to India. It wasn't working.” WorldFirstsPovertyStruggleIssuesProgressModernStrangeDevelopmentThirdsIndiaSplitsCompelledEquationsReductionLinearModern ScienceManpowerLinear Equations Author:Vandana Shiva
“I think the East India Company represents what we would think of as a very modern approach to the world where everything was counted, every penny was counted.” ThinkingWorldCompanyModernApproachIndiaEastPennies Author:Steven Knight
“Militarily, the great movements of resistance against colonial powers in the 18th and 19th century were almost all from Sufis: Imam Shamil in Caucasia, Amir Abd al Qadir in Algeria, The Barelvi family in the modern province of India, today which is Pakistan, and you can go down the line.” TodayLinesModernCenturyMovementIndiaResistanceAlsPakistanSufi19th CenturyProvincesAlgeriaAmir Author:Seyyed Hossein Nasr
“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
“The sovereignty of scriptures of all religions must come to an end if we want to have a united integrated modern India.” IfsWantEndsUnitedModernIndiaScriptureSovereigntyIntegratedModern India Author:B. R. Ambedkar
“In Tharoor's hands [the story of modern India] is transformed into Mahabharata magic.... Endlessly inventive, irreverent, wise, ingenious,... it takes on at one level or another the entire panorama of modern India....Energetic and eventful.” StoriesHandsLevelsWiseMagicModernIndiaTransformedEnergeticIngeniousIrreverentMahabharataPanoramaModern India Author:M. G. Vassanji
“India is a curious place that still preserves the past, religions, and its history. No matter how modern India becomes, it is still very much an old country.” StillsCountryMatterPastModernIndiaCuriousPreservesModern India Author:Anita Desai