“Today you have a situation where now the prescription is: People who dont have enough money to buy food should end up paying for their drinking water. That is going to be the kind of situation in which you will get more child labor. You will get more exploitation of women. Youre going to get an absolutely exploitative economy as the very basis of living becomes a source of capital accumulation and corporate growth. In fact, the chief of Coca-Cola in India said: Our biggest market in India comes from the fact that there is no drinking water left. People will have to buy Coca-Cola.” PeopleShouldKindChildrenSaidEndsEnoughFactsTodayLeftGrowthWaterSituationEconomySourceLaborIndiaBasesDrinkingChiefsCorporateExploitationAccumulationPrescriptionsDrinking WaterCoca ColaChild Labor Author:Vandana Shiva
“I'm not sure that Eastern culture does either, but I've never lived in India etc so I couldn't tell you. I can say we definitely don't. So people will sometimes come in contact with something strange and think, "Oh, it must be like this" and have a lot of fantasies about it, and somebody who sort of looks like our fantasy version of what enlightenment is can be very convincing in seeming like they've got something and then play that role.” PeopleThinkingLooksDoeI CanSometimesPlayCultureRolesFantasyStrangeEnlightenmentIndiaVersionsContactNot SureEtcEasternConvincingSeeming Author:Brad Warner
“People will come and give you sandwiches every six hours but you're really of no use. A lot of people get excited about guys like that but I can't get too excited about it because I think he's sorta useless. He's just sitting there in India under a blanket looking beautiful, so what.” PeopleThinkingGivingI CanUseBeautifulGuyHoursSixSittingIndiaExcitedUselessSandwichesBlanketLooking Beautiful Author:Brad Warner
“Ram Dass, Krishna Dass, we all spoke through interpreters. There were good interpreters there, educated people in India speak English but Maharaji was the One, the Baba, Holy Man, mendicant, he didn't speak English. We talked to him and it was hard to know him, he was an ancient holy man and I was a 21 year old seeker. So I never knew what was going on, I mean I don't really know what's going on now, my guess work is a little better perhaps.” PeopleKnowsMenYearsMeanLittlesHardSpeakHolyIndiaAncientEducatedSpokesSeekersKrishnaBabaInterpreterSpeak EnglishRamsHoly Man Author:Surya Das
“Researchers have been asking a basic question of young people. Should men be allowed to beat their wives? How you answer that question may depend on where you live. U.N. researchers put that question to adolescent girls in India and Pakistan and 53 percent - a majority of girls - said yes, wife beating is justifiable even if it's for refusing sex.” PeopleIfsMenShouldMayHas BeensSaidYoungGirlSexAnswersWifeDependsBeatsPercentIndiaAskingMajorityPakistanResearchersWhere You LiveIndia And PakistanWife Beating Author:Steve Inskeep
“You have to ask yourself the question, do you have the smartest people in the world working for your company? And if you do, you're lucky. But if you don't, put up the incentive. And have someone who is absolutely brilliant who's a 22-year old in India who says what about this way? And who revolutionizes the way you do business.” PeopleIfsWorldWayYearsAsksCompanyLuckyIndiaBrilliantIncentives Author:Peter Diamandis
“When you go and you tour Europe, or you go and you tour Egypt, or you go and you tour Iraq, or you go and you tour Afghanistan, or India, or whatever. Governments get to a point where they're illegitimate because people just give up on them as far as being leaders who have their country's interests at heart.” PeopleGivingHeartCountryGovernmentInterestLeaderGiving UpEuropeIndiaIraqAfghanistanEgyptBeing A LeaderJust Give Up Author:Juan Enriquez
“When I came to Delhi first and said, "This is not India. And then I was taken to Varanasi and there I loved, loved the culture. It was a beautiful journey. The way the people dressed - even the poorest people, and the fabrics! With vegetable dyes, and I was fascinated by the color. But in the end I loved the men - all in white - so many shades of white. And I said, "What am I going to do? A color collection or a white collection?" I finally did a neutral white collection.” PeopleMenWayFirstsSaidEndsBeautifulCultureWhiteTakenJourneyColorHe ManIndiaCollectionsShadeVegetablesFascinatedFabricPoorestDelhiVaranasi Author:Donna Karan
“In England, the population explosion can be linked very clearly with the enclosure of the commons that uprooted the peasants from their land. In India, it was the same thing: the population increased at the end of the 18th century when the British took over and Indian lands were colonized. Instead of the land feeding Indian people it started to feed the British empire. So we had destitution. Destitute people who don't have their own land to feed themselves can only feed themselves by having larger numbers, therefore they multiply. It's the rational response of a dispossessed people.” PeopleEndsNumbersLandCenturyIndiaEnglandResponsePopulationBritishRationalIndianEmpiresFeedingLinkedExplosionsPeasantsBritish Empire18th CenturyDestituteEnclosurePopulation Explosion Author:Vandana Shiva
“My wish and hope, every year, is that people's life chances - their chances of having a happy, prosperous, healthy life for themselves and their family and friends - should not depend on accident of birth. It shouldn't depend on where you're born. It should depend on who you are and what you do. But it shouldn't depend on the chance and the luck of being born in the U.S. or in a poor village in Sub-Saharan Africa or India or wherever it may be.” PeopleShouldYearsMayWishBornChancePoorDependsBirthHealthyIndiaLuckWho You AreAccidentsVillageFamily And FriendsProsperousHealthy LifeMy WishWishes And HopesSub Saharan Africa Author:Michael Elliott
“There's the kind of people like me, who spent years in India, have learned Sanskrit, have done this work deeply - they probably say for lifetimes - now interfacing [with the mainstream].” PeopleYearsKindDoneIndiaLifetimeLike MeMainstreamSanskrit Author:Gary Kraftsow
“When I was twenty, and my family were business people, and I had disappeared to India and they were like, "What are you doing?" I had a good relationship with them, and it wasn't like a rejection or anything, but they couldn't understand why I was going to India.” PeopleMy FamilyIndiaTwentiesRejectionGood Relationship Author:Gary Kraftsow
“It all started in India in the late 60s when I began helping my husband George, who was in the population field, evaluate the introduction of the intrauterine contraceptive device. At that time the IUD was considered to be the panacea for India's population problem. George's dissertation was focused on population and he became interested in the question of this new technology and how people were responding to it.” PeopleHelpingProblemTechnologyFieldsHusbandLateIndiaPopulationFocusedDevicesMy HusbandIntroductionEvaluateRespondingNew TechnologyContraceptivesPanaceaDissertationPopulation Problem Author:Ruth Simmons
“The journey to sacred places is the most common way that people travel in India. They are always going on pilgrimages to sacred places. They are always undertaking spiritual journeys to visit the great shrines in the Himalayan tier of pilgrimage places; these places are called tirthas, a word that means "crossing place," a place where you can cross the river to the far shore but also cross over into another dimension of life. Cross over to heaven, in one sense it's used.” PeopleWayMeanSpiritualUsedHeavenCommonJourneyRiversCrossesIndiaSacredDimensionsShoreCrossingsUndertakingsPilgrimageSpiritual JourneyShrinesSacred Places Author:Diana L. Eck
“The practice of leaving settled society to undertake a spiritual journey, or a spiritual life really, is something that is much more common in India. Common especially to a certain phase of life, to the end of life. But not so unusual for younger people as well.” PeopleWellsEndsSpiritualCertainCommonPracticeJourneyIndiaLeavingUnusualSpiritual LifePhasesEnd Of LifeSpiritual JourneyPhases Of Life Author:Diana L. Eck
“The New York Times will tell you what is going on in Afghanistan or the Horn of Africa. But it is no exaggeration that The New York Times has more people in India than they have in Brooklyn. Brooklyn is a borough of two million people. They're not a Bloomingdale's people, not trendy, sophisticated, the quiche and Volvo set. The New York Times does not serve those people.” PeopleDoeTwoMillionsMediaNew YorkIndiaAfghanistanSophisticatedHornsBrooklynNew York TimesExaggerationTrendyVolvoTime Will TellQuicheHorn Of Africa Author:Edwin Diamond
“My dad is an engineer by trade but worked a lot with the people in the Indian film industry when I was growing up. He started out distributing films from India here in the '70s because there was no place to go for people to watch movies from the homeland. So he developed a network of actors, writers, directors, and musicians that became his friends and that he would tour around the country with, doing stage shows of the musical numbers from their films.” PeopleCountryShowsFilmActorsNumbersWatchesGrowing UpGrowingStageIndustryDadDirectorsMusicianIndiaTradeMusicalMy DadIndianEngineersHomelandFilm IndustryPlaces To GoWatch Movie Author:Meera Menon
“In India, there is a saying that you can touch your nose directly or you can touch your nose the long way around. You need to go the long way around to reach some people.” PeopleWayNeedsLongIndiaNosesLong Way Author:Ravi Zacharias
“The first and foremost priority is to finish the unfinished task which the founding fathers of India set out for us at the time of our independence: to get rid of chronic poverty, ignorance, and disease, which have afflicted millions and millions of our people.” PeopleFirstsFatherPovertyMillionsIgnoranceDiseaseTasksIndiaIndependencePrioritiesFoundingUnfinished Author:Manmohan Singh
“India has, of course, aspirations of getting out of its poverty, ignorance, and disease which still afflict millions of people. But I do believe that we have something to offer to the rest of the world, including the United States.” PeopleWorldBelieveStillsStatesCoursesUnitedPovertyMillionsUnited StatesIgnoranceOffersDiseaseIndiaIncludingAspiration Author:Manmohan Singh
“Nowhere else you will find a country of India's diversity, of India's complexity, one billion people trying to seek their social and economic salvation in the framework of democracy, in the framework of an open economy.” PeopleTryingCountrySocialEconomyDemocracyEconomicDiversityIndiaSalvationBillionsComplexityFramework Author:Manmohan Singh
“India is this great experiment of a billion people of such great diverse persuasions working together, seeking their salvation in the framework of a democracy. I believe it will have some lessons for all the multicultural societies.” PeopleBelieveTogetherI BelieveDemocracyLessonsIndiaSalvationSeekingBillionsExperimentsWorking TogetherDiversePersuasionFrameworkMulticulturalMulticultural Society Author:Manmohan Singh
“If Pakistan honors in letter and in spirit the commitment that it gave to Mr. Vajpayee in 2004, that Pakistan territory will not be used for promoting terrorist acts against India, the sky is the limit of cooperation between our two countries. Basically, we are the same people. There are ties of religion. There are ties of language. There are ties of culture.” PeopleIfsTwoCountryUsedSpiritCultureLanguageSkyHonorLimitsCommitmentLettersIndiaTerroristTiesTerritoryCooperationPakistanPromotingTwo CountriesSky Is The Limit Author:Manmohan Singh
“I have to create in India a macroeconomic environment where the employment in aggregate can go up at a handsome rate. Once that happens, people losing jobs in one sector will not mean that they will become perpetually unemployed. From one sector, they can move on to other sectors.” PeopleMeanHappensJobsMovingEnvironmentLosingIndiaRateEmploymentHandsomeUnemployedMacroeconomics Author:Manmohan Singh
“I am convinced the entrepreneurial spirit of the Indian people, if allowed to express itself freely in the marketplace, India will be all right.” PeopleIfsSpiritIndiaConvincedIndianMarketplaceEntrepreneurialEntrepreneurial Spirit Author:Manmohan Singh
“The service of India means the service of those teeming millions steeped in poverty, ignorance and disease. To see that in my lifetime we can soften these harsh edges of extreme poverty and unleash a new economic and social revolution which will bring out the latent creativity and entrepreneurial spirit of our people, I think that's what I feel, I think.” PeopleThinkingFeelsMeanSpiritSocialPovertyCreativityMillionsEconomicIgnoranceRevolutionDiseaseIndiaLifetimeEdgesExtremesHarshEntrepreneurialLatentSocial RevolutionExtreme PovertyEntrepreneurial Spirit Author:Manmohan Singh
“I don't waste time in flowery small talk, as people do in India.” PeopleWasteIndiaWasting TimeSmall TalkDon't Waste Time Author:Indira Gandhi
“In India people can't stomach this attitude of mine, and when I say, 'Hurry up, let's get to the point,' they feel hurt.” PeopleFeelsHurtAttitudeMinesIndiaStomach Author:Indira Gandhi
“In fact the communists gained strength in India when the people thought my party was moving to the right. And they were correct.” PeopleFactsMovingPartyIndiaCommunist Author:Indira Gandhi
“India had barely become independent, in 1947, when Pakistan invaded Kashmir, which at the time was ruled by a maharajah. The maharajah fled, and the people of Kashmir, led by Sheikh Abdullah, asked for Indian help. Lord [Louis] Mountbatten, who was still governor general, replied that he wouldn't be able to supply aid to Kashmir unless Pakistan declared war, and he didn't seem bothered by the fact that the Pakistanis were slaughtering the population.” PeopleStillsWarFactsHelpingSeemsAbleLordIndiaIndependentPopulationAidsIndianGovernorsPakistanBotheredKashmir Author:Indira Gandhi
“I remember harrowing episodes. People who emigrated, people who didn't want to emigrate...Many Muslims didn't want to leave India to go to live in Pakistan, but the propaganda was that there they'd have greater opportunities and so they left. Many Hindus, on the other hand, didn't want to stay in Pakistan, but they had ties there or property and so they stayed.” PeopleWantHandsRememberOpportunityLeftGreaterIndiaPropertyPropagandaTiesEpisodesPakistan Author:Indira Gandhi
“The Western press has always insisted that India was Pakistan's enemy and vice versa, that the Hindus were against the Muslims and vice versa. They've never said, for instance, that my party has been fighting this attitude ever since we have maintained that religious hostilities are wrong and absurd, that minorities cannot be eliminated from a country, that people of different religions must live together.” PeopleHas BeensSaidDifferentCountryTogetherFightingReligiousPartyAttitudeEnemyIndiaPressesWesternVicesAbsurdInstanceMinoritiesPakistanHostilityVice VersaDifferent Religions Author:Indira Gandhi
“Unfortunately even in India there are people who talk like that. And they're the same ones who say, 'We should never have accepted the existence of Pakistan. Now that it exists, it ought to be destroyed.' But these are only a few madmen who have no following among the masses.” PeopleShouldExistenceOughtMassIndiaFollowingAcceptedDestroyedPakistanMadmen Author:Indira Gandhi
“Poverty assumes so many aspects here in India. There aren't only the poor that you see in the cities, there are the poor among the tribes, the poor who live in the forest, the poor who live on the mountains. Should we ignore them as long as the poor in the cities are better off? And better off with reference to what? To what people wanted ten years ago? Then it seemed like so much. Today it's no longer so much.” PeopleShouldYearsLongTodayWantedPoorCitiesPovertyTenMountainAspectYears AgoIndiaAssumingForestsTribesBetter Off Author:Indira Gandhi
“In the Western world, women have no other choice. In India, no. And I'll explain the reason. It's a reason that also has to do with my own case. In India women have never been a hostile competition with men - even in the most distant past, every time a woman emerged as a leader, perhaps as a queen, the people accepted her. As something normal and not exceptional.” PeopleMenWorldReasonPastChoicesMy OwnLeaderCasesNormalIndiaCompetitionWesternAcceptedQueensHostileExceptionalWestern World Author:Indira Gandhi
“In India many people come to discuss things with me. I sometimes say that half of them come saying, "I have a problem, I want to find a teacher." The other half say, "I have a problem because I have a teacher!" So it's not so simple.” PeopleWantSometimesProblemSimpleHalfTeacherIndiaOther Half Author:Tenzin Palmo
“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
“The 21st Century should be India's century but from 2004 to 2014 bad ideas and bad actions have affected the country adversely. Every day was a new bad day and there were new scandals. People were furious.” PeopleShouldIdeasCountryActionCenturyIndiaAffected21st CenturyScandalBad DayFuriousBad IdeasBad Actions Author:Narendra Modi
“The law of nature gives a man the right to defend himself when he's attacked. And God's law itself gives a man the right to defend himself when he's attacked.so, peaceful suffering and passive resistance and all of that stuff is all right maybe in India somewhere, where the people in India outnumber the whites - about a million to one.But here in America, when you tell that's like an elephant sitting down on a - on a mouse in India with [Mahatma] Gandhi.” PeopleMenGivingAmericaLawSufferingStuffMillionsSittingIndiaResistancePeacefulPassiveMiceElephantsLaws Of NatureSitting DownPassive Resistance Author:Malcolm X
“We were great mates [with Rajiv Gandhi]: very, very, very close friends. In fact, on my visit to India as Prime Minister, we were going to his home for dinner. There were two aspects I remember: one is him saying how he had trouble with his security people, because they insisted he wears a vest. He said it was very uncomfortable and he often took it off, but of course, in the end, it wouldn't have mattered if he'd been wearing three vests - he would have been gone.” PeopleIfsHas BeensSaidTwoEndsFactsHomeRememberThreeCoursesGoneTroubleSecurityAspectIndiaDinnerMinistersUncomfortablePrimeMatesPrime MinisterClose FriendsVests Author:Bob Hawke
“So the idea about how detonation of a nuclear weapon might happen vary, you know - some people are especially concerned about terrorists getting their hands on nuclear weapons and using them. Some people are worried that there might be a nuclear war between India and Pakistan. Some think the Middle East, were Israel already has nuclear weapons and where other countries may be interested at some point and acquiring them, might be a flash point.” PeopleThinkingKnowsMayIdeasWarCountryHandsMightHappensMiddleWeaponsConcernedIndiaIsraelEastNuclearTerroristWorriedMiddle EastNuclear WeaponsFlashOther CountriesPakistanVaryNuclear WarIndia And Pakistan Author:John Burroughs
“The French movies that are promoted abroad are the ones that give a trendy, cultural, petit bourgeois, upper class image of France, but it's true that people who are poor in France are the same in New York or in India.” PeopleGivingPoorClassNew YorkIndiaFranceBourgeoisUpper ClassTrendyFrench Movies Author:Gaspar Noe
“The biggest threat, when it comes to climate change and pollution, isn't going to come from us because we only have 300 million people. It's going to come from China with over 1 billion people and India with over 1 billion people.” PeopleMillionsIndiaThreatClimateClimate ChangeChinaBillionsPollution Author:Barack Obama
“East India Company weren't an evil organization that went around deliberately oppressing people, but they were driven by profit, and how familiar is that now?” PeopleEvilCompanyOrganizationIndiaProfitEastDrivenFamiliar Author:Steven Knight
“Today, of course, the world's perception of India has changed tremendously. People understand its role in world affairs; they understand that India is not some backward nation. In fact, it is the fastest growing free-market democracy in the world today, and that says it all.” PeopleWorldFactsTodayCoursesNationsRolesDemocracyGrowingChangedPerceptionIndiaAffairFree MarketWorld TodayWorld Affairs Author:Kabir Bedi
“It is time that India legally respected the rights of LGBT persons. It is very sad that this is not enshrined in Indian law in India so far, but I do believe that soon, we will come on par with respecting the individuality of people with different sexualities.” PeopleBelievePersonsDifferentLawRightsIndiaIndividualitySexualityIndianLgbtVery Sad Author:Kabir Bedi
“Black politics is redemption and transformation. It's not always pretty, but it's not always ugly either. I'll put India.Arie up against Donald Trump any day and let the people choose.” PeopleBlackTrumpIndiaTransformationUglyRedemption Author:Van Jones
“Earlier the world was bi polar. Foreign policy would be centered around two super powers. India was a little late in realizing that this bi polar situation was for namesake. Now the entire world, in changed circumstances, especially in 21st century, it is more interdependent and inter connected, earlier, the foreign policy was possible between governments, but today it is not possible just between governments. Government relations are important but increasing people to people contact is equally important. There's been a shift in paradigm.” PeopleWorldLittlesTwoImportantGovernmentWould BeTodayRealizingSituationCenturyPolicyChangedCircumstancesLateIndiaRelationConnectedContactForeign Policy21st CenturyParadigmSuper PowerNamesake Author:Narendra Modi
“I would especially like to appeal to my country's media that we should stop looking at everything in India from the prism of Pakistan. India is an independent country. It is a country of 125 crore people. Whenever it approaches any country, it will only be concerned about its own interests. It has been our biggest shortcoming and mistake that we have been tagging ourselves with another country and trying to do things.” PeopleShouldTryingHas BeensCountryInterestMistakeMediaApproachConcernedIndiaIndependentAppealsPakistanShortcomingsPrismsIndependent Country Author:Narendra Modi
“India is an independent country, we have our own policies and future. We have to think about the future of our 125 crore people. There should be no compromise on our interests. We have relations with America in the context of these fundamental points.” PeopleThinkingShouldCountryAmericaInterestPolicyIndiaRelationIndependentFundamentalsCompromiseNo CompromiseIndependent Country Author:Narendra Modi