“Although when Christianity appeared the total population of the planet was only a fraction of that of the twentieth century, most of the earth's surface was quite outside the Mediterranean world, Persia, India, and China.” WorldEarthChristianityCenturyPlanetsIndiaPopulationChinaSurfaceTwentieth CenturyFractionsPersia Author:Kenneth Scott Latourette
“To balance China, the democracies will need new friends - and India with its fast-growing economy, youthful population, and democratic politics seems the obvious candidate.” NeedsSeemsEconomyDemocracyGrowingBalanceIndiaDemocraticPopulationObviousChinaCandidatesNew FriendsGrowing Economy Author:David Frum
“We are, if territory and population be looked at together, one of the great countries of the world - a monster country, one might say, along with others such as China, India, the recent Soviet Union, and Brazil. And there is a real question as to whether "bigness" in a body politic is not an evil in itself, quite aside from the policies pursued in its name.” IfsWorldRealCountryBodyMightTogetherEvilNamesPolicyIndiaUnionsPopulationChinaMonstersTerritorySovietSoviet UnionPursuedBrazilGreat CountryReal QuestionsCountries Of The World Author:George F. Kennan
“Access to governance has to be guaranteed with transparent systems that deliver responses and outcomes. The strengthening of democratic governance empowers the population to become active partners in the growth process.” ProcessGrowthIndiaDemocraticResponsePopulationActiveAccessPartnersOutcomesEmpoweringGovernanceTransparentStrengthening Author:Narendra Modi
“People must understand the Clean Ganga program, as an economic activity also. The Gangetic plains account for 40% of our population. They have over one hundred towns, and thousands of villages.” PeopleEconomicActivityHundredEmpowermentProgramAccountsIndiaTownsCleanPopulationVillage Author:Narendra Modi
“There are more obese people in the world than starving people. As China and India start to develop our eating habits - and not by accident but because agribusiness is going over there and imposing our habits on them - if the population doesn't increase at all, we'll have to raise twice as many animals as we do.” PeopleIfsWorldAnimalHabitEatingIndiaIncreaseRaisesPopulationChinaAccidentsStarvingImposingObeseEating HabitsChina And IndiaAgribusiness Author:Jonathan Safran Foer
“In some parts of the world, that sex selection for boys - and it's usually for boys - reflects sex discrimination against girls, and it leads to very large imbalances - in China, in Korea, in India - in the population between boys and girls, a vast disproportion of boys to girls, and it reflects really this discriminatory attitude toward girls.” WorldGirlSexAttitudeBoysIndiaPopulationChinaDiscriminationSelectionKoreaBoy And GirlImbalanceBoy GirlSex Discrimination Author:Michael Sandel
“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
“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
“China is building cities for a 20 to 40 percent increase in population. India is quickly growing. The carbon footprints of that and other development around the world are overwhelming.” WorldCitiesGrowingBuildingDevelopmentPercentIndiaIncreasePopulationChinaAround The WorldOverwhelmingCarbonFootprintCarbon Footprint Author:Frank Gehry
“It's amazing how much progress there's been in China, and also India. Those are the places that really matter - they're half of the world's population. They're the places where things are enormously better now than they were 50 years ago. And I don't see anything that's going to stop that.” WorldYearsMatterHalfProgressYears AgoIndiaPopulationChinaBetter Now Author:Freeman Dyson
“Why not look at Indonesia? It will be the third biggest country in the world in population in 25 years' time - after India and China.” WorldYearsLooksCountryThirdsIndiaPopulationChinaWhy NotIndonesia Author:Martin Sorrell
“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
“In India's distant past, when the population was low, the blessing given a woman was, 'May you have many children.' Most of our epics and literature stress this wish, and the idea that a woman should have many children hasn't declined.” ShouldMayChildrenIdeasPastLiteratureGivenWishBlessingLowsShould HaveIndiaStressPopulationEpic Author:Indira Gandhi
“We often confuse or loosely use the ideas of crony capitalism or neoliberalism to actually avoid using the word "capitalism", but once you've actually seen, let's say, what's happening in India and the United States - that this model of US economics packaged in a carton that says "democracy" is being forced on countries all over the world, militarily if necessary, has in the United States itself resulted in 400 of the richest people owning wealth equivalent [to that] of half of the population.” PeopleIfsWorldIdeasCountryStatesUseWealthUnitedHalfUnited StatesDemocracyModelsHappeningsCapitalismEconomicsIndiaPopulationNeoliberalismCroniesCrony Capitalism Author:Arundhati Roy
“As a global society we are performing a great experiment on ourselves. Half of the world population wants to race faster into the future. Go visit China and India. They're ready to go. And half of the world wants to drag us into the past. The problem is both sides have guns. I think there really is a reaction. A lot of people are saying enough is enough.” PeopleThinkingWorldWantEnoughProblemPastSidesRaceHalfReadyGunIndiaPopulationChinaExperimentsReactionsFasterPerformingDragBoth SidesEnough Is EnoughWorld PopulationChina And India Author:Paul Saffo
“The Muslim population in India is, largely speaking, not radicalised. From the beginning, they were always very secular-minded.” IndiaPopulationSecular Author:Salman Rushdie
“In Delaware, the largest growth in population is Indian-Americans moving from India. You cannot go to a 7-11 or a Dunkin Donuts unless you have a slight Indian accent. I'm not joking.” MovingGrowthIndiaPopulationIndianAccentsAmerican IndianDonutsDumb LiberalStupid LiberalDelawareDunkin Donuts Author:Joe Biden
“Everybody knows that the great reversed triangle of land, with its base in the north and its apex in the south, which is called India, embraces fourteen hundred thousand square miles, upon which is spread unequally a population of one hundred and eighty millions of souls.” KnowsSoulMillionsLandThousandHundredIndiaEmbraceSouthPopulationSpreadMilesSquaresEightyFourteenTrianglesApex Book:Around the World in Eighty Days Source: Around the World in Eighty Days
“Contrasting sharply, in the developing countries represented by India, Pakistan, and most of the countries in Asia and Africa, seventy to eighty percent of the population is engaged in agriculture, mostly at the subsistence level.” CountryLevelsPercentIndiaPopulationDevelopingEngagedAgricultureAsiaPakistanSeventiesEightyDeveloping CountriesSubsistenceIndia Pakistan Author:Norman Borlaug
“Facebook has more than 1 billion members, which by population makes it the third largest country in the world—somewhere between India and the United States. Who’s sending missionaries to that country? Who’s planting churches there?” WorldCountryStatesChurchUnitedUnited StatesMembersThirdsIndiaPopulationBillions Author:Phil Cooke
“If we transform our population into a trained, focused, balanced and inspired population, India will be a miracle.” IfsLoveLifeMeditationIndiaMiracleInspiredPopulationFocusedLove LifeBalanced Author:Jaggi Vasudev