“Good governance is treating development as a mass movement in order to see that fruits of development reach the poor and the downtrodden.” OrderPoorMovementDevelopmentMassIndiaFruitGovernanceDowntroddenGood Governance Author:Narendra Modi
“M-governance is empowered governance. It has the potential to make development a truly inclusive and comprehensive mass movement. It puts governance into everyone's reach. It puts governance in your hands 24/7.” HandsTechnologyMovementDevelopmentMassIndiaGovernanceEmpoweredComprehensiveInformation Technology Author:Narendra Modi
“India's democracy where over 1 billion people have a voice in deciding their future is a world example of how governance can incorporate diversity into a movement for inclusive growth. New modes of democratic engagement, especially through using e-governance are allowing greater access to fundamental rights for all our people.” PeopleWorldGrowthVoiceDemocracyGreaterRightsExampleMovementDiversityIndiaFundamentalsDemocraticAccessBillionsAllowingEngagementGovernanceFundamental Rights Author:Narendra Modi
“Small acts can drive reforms. What appears minor can actually be vital and fundamental. Generating 20,000 MW of power attracts a lot of attention. That is important. At the same time, 20,000 MW of power can be saved through a people's movement for energy efficiency. The second is more difficult but is as important as the first. Small indeed, is beautiful.” PeopleFirstsImportantBeautifulEnergyDifficultAttentionMovementIndiaFundamentalsSavedReformMinorsEfficiencyGovernanceSmall ActsEnergy Efficiency Author:Narendra Modi
“Let the professionals like doctors & engineers teach in schools once a week. Let's make teaching a national movement necessary for Nation building.” SchoolMotivationNationsTeachWeekTeachingMovementBuildingDoctorsIndiaEngineersNation Building Author:Narendra Modi
“Development seems to have become the agenda only of government. It is seen as a scheme. That should not be the case. Development should be everyone`s agenda. It should be a people's movement.” PeopleShouldSeemsGovernmentCasesMovementDevelopmentEmpowermentIndiaAgendasSchemes Author:Narendra Modi
“International Yoga Day is a reflection of the largest knowledge based peoples' movement the world has ever seen.” WorldMovementReflectionYogaIndiaInternational Author:Narendra Modi
“The anti-globalization movement is one of the biggest globalized events of the contemporary world, people coming from everywhere, Australia, Indonesia, Britain, India, Poland, Germany, South Africato demonstrate in Seattle or Quebec. What could be more global than that?” PeopleWorldEventsMovementIndiaSouthContemporaryGermanyBritainAustraliaSouth AfricaGlobalizationIndonesiaSeattlePolandQuebec Author:Amartya Sen
“We have a very old conservation movement, particularly in the United States, which has focused on campaigns to protect endangered species: the spotted owl, the old-growth forest. But usually it stops there. To me, biodiversity is the full spectrum. Species conservation is not only about wilderness conservation. Its also about protecting the livelihood of people even while changing the dominant relationship that humans have had with other species. In India, its an economic issue, not just an ecological one.” PeopleHumansStatesGrowthUnitedUnited StatesIssuesEconomicMovementProtectIndiaSpeciesFocusedCampaignsForestsWildernessDominantConservationSpectrumEcologicalLivelihoodOwlBiodiversityEndangered SpeciesEconomic Issues Author:Vandana Shiva
“My father had been a forester and I had grown up on those hills. I had seen forests and streams disappear. I jumped into Chipko movement and started to work with the peasant women. I learned from them about what forests mean for a rural woman in India in terms of firewood and fodder and medicinal plants and rich knowledge.” MeanFatherTermRichMovementIndiaPlantDisappearForestsHillsStreamsPeasantsFodderFirewood Author:Vandana Shiva
“You know, sometimes I worry, you know, is comedy and my type of comedy going to get stale? Is it going to be so offensive that it becomes uninteresting or so niche that I don't have an audience anymore? But it keeps getting bigger and bigger and bigger, where roasting now is a movement. These roasts are on in India, in Mexico.” KnowsSometimesWorryAudienceComedyMovementTypeIndiaBiggerMexicoOffensiveNicheStaleRoasting Author:Jeff Ross
“I hope that that the people in the Occupy movement are politically aware enough to know that their being excluded from the obscene amassing of wealth of US corporations is part of the same system of the exclusion and war that is being waged by these corporations in places like India, Africa and the Middle East.” PeopleKnowsWarEnoughWealthMiddleMovementIndiaEastCorporationsMiddle EastExclusionExcludedObsceneOccupy Movement Author:Arundhati Roy
“India and Burma have been close friends since the days we were struggling for independence. And I'm a great admirer of Mahatma Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru, and all those leaders of India's independence movement. I would like to believe the aspirations and hopes we shared in the past will continue to bind us in the future.” BelieveHas BeensPastLeaderStruggleMovementIndiaIndependenceAspirationClose FriendsAdmirerBurmaNehru Author:Aung San Suu Kyi
“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's amazing to me in retrospect that I wrote as much as I did with full-time jobs. Each city gave me a new distance from - and a new way of looking at - India. I'm grateful for the movement. I feel as if I've crammed several lives into one.” IfsWayFeelsJobsCitiesMovementIndiaGratefulDistanceNew WaysRetrospectFull Time Jobs Author:Karan Mahajan
“When the climbers in 1953 planted their flags on the highest mountain, they set them in snow over the skeletons of creatures that had lived in the warm clear ocean that India, moving north, blanked out. Possibly as much as twenty thousand feet below the seafloor, the skeletal remains had turned into rock. This one fact is a treatise in itself on the movements of the surface of the earth. If by some fiat I had to restrict all this writing to one sentence, this is the one I would choose: The summit of Mt. Everest is marine limestone.” IfsWritingFactsEarthMovingClearFeetRocksMovementThousandMountainCreaturesOceanHighestIndiaTwentiesRemainsWarmSentencesSurfaceSnowFlagsMarineSummitSkeletonsEverestClimbersOne SentenceMt EverestLimestone Author:John McPhee
“One individual can begin a movement that turns the tide of history. Martin Luther King in the civil rights movement, Mohandas Ganhi in India, Nelson Mandela in South Africa are examples of people standing up with courage and non-violence to bring about needed changes.” PeopleInspirationalTurnsIndividualRightsViolenceExampleMovementKingsNeededStandingIndiaSouthCivil RightsTidesSouth AfricaLutherCivil Rights MovementNon ViolenceNelsonCivil Right MovementNeeded Change Author:Jack Canfield
“In 1989, thirteen nations comprising 1,695,000 people experienced nonviolent revolutions that succeeded beyond anyone's wildest expectations . . . If we add all the countries touched by major nonviolent actions in our century (the Philippines, South Africa . . . the independence movement in India . . .) the figure reaches 3,337,400,000, a staggering 65% of humanity! All this in the teeth of the assertion, endlessly repeated, that nonviolence doesn't work in the 'real' world.” PeopleIfsWorldRealCountryActionHumanityNationsPeaceCenturyFiguresMovementRevolutionMajorsExpectationsIndiaIndependenceAddSouthTeethTouchedReal WorldNonviolenceSouth AfricaAssertionThirteenUbuntuPhilippinesStaggering Author:Walter Wink
“We are in a strange kind of time, where the kind of liberation movements such as anti-apartheid movements and freedom struggles in India need to be reinvented. We need to retool them so that all the gains that our generation has made can be passed on to future generations.” NeedsKindMadeStruggleGenerationsMovementStrangeGainsIndiaLiberationFuture GenerationApartheidOur Generation Author:Vandana Shiva
“Religion is the life of India, religion is the language of this country, the symbol of all its movements.” CountryLanguageMovementIndiaImportanceSymbols Book:The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda
“Only If there is devotion to knowledge, the 21st century will become India's century and the foundation of that will be laid by the 'Vanche Gujarat' movement.” IfsCenturyMovementIndiaFoundationDevotion21st CenturyGujarat Author:Narendra Modi