“I went to University in 1991, and I remember, nobody thought of India. I remember conversations where people would laugh and say, "Do you have elephants on the road?" Nobody is saying that today.” PeopleTodayRememberLaughingConversationIndiaUniversityElephants Author:Rahul Gandhi
“All publishers are Columbuses. The successful author is their America. The reflection that they-like Columbus-didn't discover what they expected to discover, and didn't discover what they started out to discover, doesn't trouble them. All they remember is that they discovered America; they forget that they started out to discover some patch or corner of India.” AmericaRememberForgetSuccessfulTroubleReflectionIndiaCornersExpectedPublishersPatchesColumbus Book:Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 2: The Complete and Authoritative Edition Source: Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 2: The Complete and Authoritative Edition
“India brings out so many different feelings in me. I've been fascinated with India and Indian culture as long as I can remember - ever since the '60s with the Beatles and Maharishi Mahesh Yogi.” LongI CanDifferentFeelingsRememberCultureIndiaIndianFascinatedYogiIndian CultureDifferent Feelings Author:Joe Perry
“A lot of people say that India has been held back by its democracy. But lets remember that, despite being a poor country, Indias democracy meant that its government never let millions of people starve.” PeopleHas BeensCountryGovernmentRememberPoorMillionsDemocracyIndiaDespitePoor Countries Author:Alex Tabarrok
“When we affect to condemn savages, we should remember that by doing so we asperse our own progenitors; for they were savages also.Who can swear that among the naked British barbarians sent to Rome to be stared at more than 1500 years ago, the ancestor of Bacon might not have been found?--Why, among the very Thugs of India, or the bloody Dyaks of Borneo, exists the germ of all that is intellectually elevated and grand. We are all of us--Anglo-Saxons, Dyaks and Indians--sprung from one head and made in one image.” ShouldYearsHas BeensMadeMightRememberFoundCivilizationYears AgoIndiaBritishToleranceNakedRomeAncestorSwearBloodySavagesBarbariansGermsBarbarismThugSprungAnglo SaxonBorneo Author:Herman Melville
“Let us remember that we are all Indians eating Indian grain and salt, and living on the dumb Indian masses.” RememberEatingMassIndiaDumbIndianSaltGrainLiving On Author:Mahatma Gandhi
“I remember being caught in this earthquake in Mexico City and having a sense of people coming before me, of being part of this lineage. I felt similarly when I went to India and South America.” PeopleAmericaRememberFeltCitiesIndiaSouthCaughtMexicoEarthquakesSouth AmericaLineageMexico City Author:Anne Waldman
“We always remember the courage of the people of Kargil! We want to make Kargil among India's most developed districts.” PeopleWantRememberIndiaGovernance Author:Narendra Modi
“I remember flying with Air India to New York quite a few years ago now and I love Indian food, so the fact that I had a curry on board was fantastic.” YearsFactsRememberAirNew YorkYears AgoIndiaFlyingFantasticIndianBoardsCurryIndian Food Author:Phil Collins
“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
“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
“Those who are acquainted with the literature of India will remember a beautiful old story about this extreme charity, how a whole family, as related in the Mahâbhârata, starved themselves to death and gave their last meal to a beggar. This is not an exaggeration, for such things still happen.” StillsWholeStoriesHappensLastsBeautifulRememberLiteratureIndiaCharityExtremesRelatedMealsBeggarExaggerationWhole Family Book:The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda Source: The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda
“It is India that gave us the ingenious method of expressing all numbers by means of ten symbols, each symbol receiving a value of position as well as an absolute value; a profound and important idea which appears so simple to us now that we ignore its true merit. But its very simplicity and the great ease which it has lent to computations put our arithmetic in the first rank of useful inventions; and we shall appreciate the grandeur of the achievement the more when we remember that it escaped the genius of Archimedes and Apollonius, two of the greatest men produced by antiquity.” MenFirstsWellsMeanTwoImportantIdeasRememberValuesSimpleNumbersEducationPositionGeniusTenAchievementAppreciateIndiaAbsolutesMathematicsMethodProfoundSimplicityAppreciationMathInventionSymbolsMathematicalEaseMeritReceivingGrandeurAntiquityIngeniousArithmeticComputationNumbers And MathGreatest ManGreat Math Author:Pierre-Simon Laplace